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From: benji@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Benji Rudiak-Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ProTerm bashing
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Date: 28 Jan 91 03:23:14 GMT
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In article <38540@cup.portal.com> -Rich-@cup.portal.com (Richard Sherman Payne) writes:
>
>	Just this morning, I found Shrinkit3.2, and started to download it.
>My scratch directory was nearly full, but I recalled having about 400 blocks
>free. It seems I was wrong. PT aborted the transfer with a "volume full"
>message, and mangled the directory. Prosel managed to extract the files, but
>will not fix the directory. I cannot delete it, and am going to have to
>read the Prosel manual to see what options I have.
>
>	But this is a BIG problem with PT. I am using PT2.2 and running
>GS/OS 5.04. It happened to me once before, but I only lost a floppy. Does
>anyone have any ideas on how to correct the mangled directory?
>
This same thing happened to me (disk full/mangled directory) except that I
was using Talk is Cheap.  So it seems that it may not be ProTerm's fault,
but a bug in ProDOS.  Has anyone else had problems with this, with
different communications software or even running some other type of
program?

Luckily in my case I had a backup of the trashed disk, so I didn't even
attempt to salvage what was left.  I did look at the volume directory,
though, and it seemed to have been totally overwritten.  The only way to
get it back would be to build it up from scratch.

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