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From: woodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: BackupST limitations?
Message-ID: <22713@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 91 12:28:40 GMT
References: <1991Jan12.172310.25325@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <59439@aurs01.UUCP>
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <59439@aurs01.UUCP> roberson@aurw31.UUCP (Charles "Chip" Roberson) writes:
>In article <1991Jan12.172310.25325@rodan.acs.syr.edu> dinapoli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ron DiNapoli) writes:
...
>Yep!  Me too...but with Turtle.  Turtle can't handle my d:\tex\fonts
>directory.  There is some bug in Turtle that I could never convince
>George Woodside of its existence, also.  Lately I've been gambling
>because Turtle will not backup *either* of my two 10meg hd partitions
>without bombing.  I'm running TOS 1.0 or whatever (circa 1985) on
>a 1040ST.
....

I've never argued the existance of a problem, only that I've been
unable to re-create it. That makes it nearly impossible to locate the
problem, let alone do anything about it.

I've a theory that the problem is centered around a huge file list,
a problem in the combination of MWC malloc, GEMDOS Malloc, and the Pexec
of the Ramdisk, resulting in an overwrite of something somewhere in
memory. Until I can recreate the problem, however, I can't do anything
about it. And, if I can recreate it, and it turns out to be one of
exceeding the memory available, then the only fix possible will be to
deal with smaller quantities of files, or expand your memory.
-- 
* George R. Woodside - Citicorp/TTI - Santa Monica, CA *
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