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From: Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Othello Game
Message-ID: <28303@cup.portal.com>
Date: 27 Mar 90 00:58:55 GMT
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  RE: Zybex.uue, etc

  Zybex works fine except for the fact that undecoding it will destroy your
source file.  This has already been mentioned previously.
  I wasn't affected by this since I hadn't downloaded the text as a .UUE 
file, but I had other problems....
  Some program I was using trashed my hard disk (I use Sparta), that's ok, 
I'Ve been through that before.  I reconstruct the directories and everything
back it up on a different partition, reformat the directory and copy 
everything back.  Then I load up DISKCOM which I had on the trashed drive 
and couldn't do before because it had been trashed.  Load it up and 
unDISKCOM Zybex.  Wouldn't you know it, like an idiot I don't change the 
defaults and DISKCOM trashes my hard drive!  Grumble, grumble, grumble...all
this work just to play one lousy game that I could have gotten from 
somewhere else in the first place.  I rebuild the hard drive, fixing all the
directories.  Lost a few files to that but they are backed up on other 
disks.  So what is the moral to this story?  Backup your hard drive because
Murphy strikes at the most inconvenient times! :)

  Of course, this did prompt me to do something (no, I haven't backed up
my hard drive yet, screw Murphy) - I am writing a defragmentation program.  
Anybody out there interested?  (This is for Sparta in case you were 
wondering.)

Charles_K_Hughes
@cup.portal.com