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From: rfutscher@pbs.org
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win3 killed my disk -- suggestions?
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.211131.11114@pbs.org>
Date: 22 Dec 90 02:11:30 GMT
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>I was playing with multiple sessions -- WordPerfect, Windows Paint, &
>GWS shareware gif viewer.  I tried to alt-esc while GWS was running
>(displaying a .gif in 640x480x256), the screen went "funny" (wierd
>colors, mostly), & I had to re-boot.  Now, I get parity errors from my
>disk, CHKDSK shows lots of bad first allocation thingys, & naturally
>some programs & directories are not accessible anymore.
> 
    Crosstalk for windows trashed my disk!  I downloaded a file from the
VAX at work with a VAX file name. I think Crosstalk saved it with
the 20 character VAX file name. After the first couple of blocks the disk 
LED was on almost constantly. After closing crosstalk windows reported
that it could not read drive C:. I had so many crosslinked files that 
I had to restore my backup. I don't think windows does very much checking
for valid file names. I called DCA and they said that they would check it
out and call me back. I am still waiting.

Robert Futscher   rfutscher@pbs.org