Am Dienstag, 2. August 2016 um 11:52:31, schrieb David L. Johnson <david.john...@lehigh.edu> > On 08/02/2016 10:40 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, David L. Johnson wrote: > > > >> These are being created since the files were edited by the new > >> version of > >> LyX you installed, which uses a newer format. LyX then auto-saves > >> them in > >> the old format so that you can edit it, if you need to, with an older > >> version of LyX. This seems to be a reasonable thing to do at the > >> start of > >> a new format, and will not occur when you edit files using LyX-2.2 that > >> are already in the new format. > > > > David, > > > > Thanks for the clarification. I don't recall seeing these files when > > previous versions (from 1.0 on) were upgraded. > > > > > It was certainly not the case with every change of format --- and was > probably added because someone got caught with a file they could not > edit after going to a new version of LyX, then backing out of the > upgrade for some reason. I am not sure whether this feature had been > added earlier --- I don't have such backups around except those created > by lyx 2.2. >
File 'README' suggests to read 'NEWS'.
File 'NEWS' suggests to read 'RELEASE-NOTES'.
There it is described in the last paragraph.
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