Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!van-bc!
From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HELP Dave Hanie or Kim E. DeVaughn.
Keywords: ls 4.0k problems or somthing wrose.
Message-ID: <1932@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 6 Sep 90 11:27:33 GMT
Lines: 58
Return-Path: <lpami!lphillips>
To: van-bc!rnews

In <1990Sep6.034154.9272@ecn.purdue.edu>, yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes:
>well I have this WEIRD problem., I can't find some files.
>i know they are there. They are in my C: dir nd they run and everything.
>the problem i can't SEE them, I try ls -h (for hidden and No GO!)
>they don't show up with DIR LIST or anything.....
>but they RUN!!!!

There are two ways, in general, that the Amiga finds files on disk. One is by
knowing the name of a file, and going directly to it. This is how a program
gets executed. The other was is by not knowing the name, and having to traverse
the directory structure. This is how a LIST or DIR works.

>I did a ls -R and saw no file called ZHOW (also missing Qview)
>but the thing worked, i could do Zhow Foo.iff and see the iff.

You should also be able to do a 'COPY Zhow RAM:', since the copy comand will
go directly to the full file name and find it.

>I am very puzzled at this, at first i thought they were hidden but they
>don't seem to show up on anything.

Well, they are hidden, but not on purpose, and not properly. The directory
structure is corruptThere are a number of ways this could be, but in general,
one of the subdirectory or file headers that gets examined before the hidden
file has bad pointers in it.

>also i got a "Weird" file in my c: dir it just called "t" 
>with Dirtools is shows up as a square box then a "t"
>i can't delete this bugger to save my life.
>i get error #
>205 can't get info.

That is probably a corrupt file header showing up.

>I'll run FixDisk (I did run B.A.D on this floppy a week ago) on it.
>any help is welcomed, I have no idea what's going on.

Ahh... there's the probable reason for all this. Something interrupted a run of
B.A.D. or perhaps it got confused.

>
>well Will the Deity Dave Hannie HELP.... (just a joke)

Yes he will, and in fact, he has already, by creating a great utility called
DiskSalv. Get it, use it on this disk, and keep it around, especially if you
are going to run disk optimizers on your only copy of a floppy. Better to make
a backup BEFORE you do drastic things to a diskette.

-larry

--
It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs.
    -D.Wolfskill
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
|   //   Larry Phillips                                                 |
| \X/    lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips |
|        COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322  -or-  76703.4322@compuserve.com        |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+