Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!blake!djo7613 From: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: TP5 losing work Keywords: TP5, lost source files Message-ID: <2472@blake.acs.washington.edu> Date: 20 Jun 89 15:21:05 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle Lines: 32 Yet Another Turbo Pascal 5 question!!! My wife is working on a TP5 program which does quite a bit of graphics and even involves redefining the mouse cursor. Working with such volatile stuff, you can certainly expect a machine hang every *once* in a while , but what's been happening lately is puzzling. She'll finish up a bit of code-polishing and start the recompile - reexecute process when the screen freezes. After a cold boot, she finds that the source code file is still "there" (names exists in the FAT and DIR listing), but it's empty (size=0). In other words, the old source is wiped clean (or pointers to the location are wiped, whatever) but the hang occurs before the new source can be written to the (hard) disk. Norton Utilities was able to do a sector-by-sector rebuild of the *old* version of the source, but the new changes are nowhere to be found. It doesn't happen every time, but it's bitten her twice in one week while she was "in-between" floppy disk backups! (sorry, shouldn't grin here, but "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" seems to apply here...) Is this a predictable occurrence when working with new (buggy) programs in TP5? "Moby" Dick O'Connor Washington Department of Fisheries Olympia, Washington 98504 Internet Mail: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu **************************************************************************** DISCLAIMER: I speak only for myself, not for the Department. Here, anyway! **************************************************************************** So long, and thanks *from* all the fish...