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From: Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: DIRT - a new DIR command
Message-ID: <36205@cup.portal.com>
Date: 25 Nov 90 00:06:11 GMT
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  ARGGGH!

Doug writes:
>
>
>>  Well, I've got some good news and some bad news...
>>
>>  First the bad news...there is one confirmed bug in DIRT.COM, located by
>>yours truly.  It isn't painful or nasty, so don't worry about it.
>>Apparently DIRT.COM skips the very first directory entry - not a major bug
>>but I should have a fix for it this weekend.
>>  Anybody else find any bugs?
>
>	I think I've found something: I have a directory 'MAC_65' which does
>not work with DIRT.  The '_' is legal with SDX, but the program thinks it's
>bad input or something.

  Grumble, grumble, grumble.  I checked this one out real quick the other day
and sure enough it is there.  This is a simple bug to fix, but I really wish 
I hadn't made such a stupid mistake in the first place. :(

>I haven't noticed DIRT skipping the first directory
>entry.  Maybe I had an erased file in the first position, if that's what
>it was.

  Guess what, upon further testing, DIRT is not repeating the skipping
behavior. :)

>
>>  Me too...of course, that also happens to be another utility that I need for
>>the disk compactor, so you'll see it eventually.
>
>	Sounds good.  Good luck...
>
>--
>Doug Wokoun - (aa384)

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