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From: traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: 4dos misfeature?
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.093837.1461@rtf.bt.co.uk>
Date: 8 Mar 91 09:38:37 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.192824.9889@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Organization: British Telecom Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
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In article <1991Mar6.192824.9889@en.ecn.purdue.edu> stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton) writes:
>
>This could be a bug in 4dos 3.02a, or I could be extraordinarily unlucky,
>or I could just be stupid :-)
>
> (stuff deleted)
>that every directory on my disk became c:\misc\*(&^%&%# with no files.
>
> (stuff deleted)
>programs would still run, I crossed my fingers and hit the panic button.
>On reboot, all was perfectly normal.
>
>I haven't been eager enough to attempt this experiment again, at least not
>until I finish another full backup.  Be wary, I suppose.
>

I have also had a similar problem, several times in fact! Everything was ok
when I rebooted. I noticed this feature before 3.02a but upon changing
motherboards and using 3.02a the problems has no recurred. I'm not sure
if moving files caused the problem for me, in fact I'm pretty sure
the darn problem was not repeatable, it just popped up now and then to
frighten me!


Michael Traub
BT Customer Systems, Brighton Systems Centre. traub@rtf.bt.co.uk