WORDSTAR TIP by Herschel E. Davidson II How can you avoid losing your file when WordStar comes up with ERROR #12, DISK FULL, message when you are in the edit mode. Prevention is the best cure. When you revise a text, remember that WordStar needs room for its "BAK" files: if there is not enough room for your disk for both the revised file and its 'BAK' file, make room before you edit. If, however, you get caught in edit with ERROR #12, DISK FULL message, all is not necessarily lost. Press the ESCAPE key, as WordStar directs. Unless you get another ERROR #12 message, you can possibly save your file. Type "^KF" to bring up the disk directory. To make additional space on your disk, delete any file you can spare by typing a "^KJ filename.ext". If you still need more space, use ^KO to copy files to another drive, then delete them from the full disk. If you have a full WordStar disk to one drive and a full disk of text files in the other, note that you can make some space on the WordStar disk by deleting WINSTALL.COM, WS.INS, WSMSGS, assuming of course, that you have backup copies (of these programs). Since '^KF' is a toggle, you can remove the disk directory from screen by typing it once again when you have cleared enough space on your disk. Article from the Alamo KUG Journal August 1985