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From: wjbaird@dahlia.uwaterloo.ca (Warren Baird)
Subject: Re: ProTerm bashing
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.063201.14545@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 91 06:32:01 GMT
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In article <10523@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> benji@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Benji Rudiak-Gould) writes:
>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?

I haven't had it happen to me using ProTerm, or any other comm
package, but I had a similar event happen to a data disk of mine...
About 5 years ago...  I was using a Prodos version of AppleWriter, and
I tried saving a short poem to disk...  It was short enough to only
require a single block on the disk, and for some reason ProdDos
decided to plop it right down in the middle of the directory track...

Fortunately, it was only a floppy, and I was able to reconstruct a
fair bit of the data, but it is possible that there are still a few
bugs floating around in ProDos....  I'm afraid that I can't give any
details, I'm not sure what version of Applewriter/Prodos I was using,
etc...

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         Warren Baird, 2A Co-op Math Computer Science, U(Waterloo)
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            An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.