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From: simpson@skink.cis.ohio-state.edu (john simpson)
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Subject: Failed overlays and FAT errors (omega)
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Date: 28 Mar 91 15:08:28 GMT
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	I ran into a rather disturbing problem last night and was
    wondering if anyone else had encountered it.  I was playing a 
    version of Omega (v. 0.71 (beta)) that I had just ftp'd and 
    found myself dumped back to DOS with an "overlay not found" error.
    Oh well, I thought, the doc warned of bugs so I'll start over, 
    right?  Wrong.  Every time I tried to run a program (omega, chkdsk
    and nu in that order) on my hard drive I got errors about damaged 
    FATs and corrupt EXE files.  With a sinking feeling in my stomach
    (how many times had I warned others to make backups?) I ran chkdsk
    from A: -- no errors!  C: and D: checked out fine (partitions on
    a 40 meg drive).  I warm booted and everything was back to normal.

        Has anyone else seen this?  Is it connected with omega or is it
    "common" after failed overlays?  I ran virus checks before and after
    (scan67) and my system's clean.  I'm running DOS 3.3 and had cmdedt
    and print resident.

        After this happened I used Archie to locate what looked like a
    more recent version of omega.  After I ftp'd it I discovered it was
    the same (but arc'd, not zipped and with a more recent date on the
    arc'd file) and ran into the same problem, failed overlay when I tried
    to enter a certain building.  Can anyone point me to the most recent
    version?

			      Thanks,

			       John

p.s. please don't email to the account this is posted from, it's a student
     account which will soon die.

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John R. Simpson						jrs27@cas.bitnet
"It's a dog eat dog world out there and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" -Norm