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From: MFAGKCHR@HMARL5.BITNET
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Subject: Problems with dutch TOS 1.4
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Date: 22 Mar 90 14:47:00 GMT
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Hello,

This may have been discussed before. I haven't read the net since a long time.
Last week dutch TOS 1.4 ROMS were installed in one of our mega-2 systems.
I found some nasty problems, which I don't like at all:

1) I get lost and cross-linked clusters on the harddisk.

The harddisk is a megafile 30. I use CBHD 3.5, the harddisk driver
from the german 'Scheibenkleister' book. This did run very well
with TOS 1.2 (and 1.0). In the auto folder only environ.prg (which
sets the environment strings for TeX) and TOS14FIX.PRG are used.
(I do not use poolfix3, because it can not load after CBHD).
TURBOST16.ACC is the only accessory used.
I use GULAM, which is installed to autostart. I couldn't relate
the problem to a specific program. Although I noticed that most
problem files were created by SEDT or TeX (the TOOLS version), but than
most files are created by those 2 programs anyhow.

The problem might be a virus problem. I did get an old megafile 20 harddisk on
the same day. The disk was not empty. There were very much harddisk problems on
that disk, and I did send it back. I'm not sure however, whether the
a virus may have been transported from one system to the other.

2) Sometimes the system does not boot correctly, or I can not start
   anything from Gulam.

Well, I have a lot of related questions. But I will post them separately.
The first problem described above is by far the most important.
I hope somebody has an answer.

                        Chris Evelo
                        MFAGKCHR@HMARL5 (BITNET)