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From: dodgson@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Harry Dodgson)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on DC Utilities
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.132532.15360@sol.cs.wmich.edu>
Summary: Just a thought or two
Keywords: DC Squish, DC XTractor Plus
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
References: <59676@aurs01.UUCP> <59677@aurs01.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 13:25:32 GMT

In article <59677@aurs01.UUCP>, whitcomb@aurs01.UUCP (Jonathan Whitcomb) writes:
 
 [lots of stuff deleted]
 
- -My main problem with DC Squish is that sometimes when
- -I unsquish a program, it leaves a squished copy in the folder
- -that I can't delete.  I guess it sets a read only bit, but I
- -can't seem to clear it.  
 
> DC claims this is a TOS problem (I use V1.2).  What happens is
> that TOS leaves two files in the folder with the same name (a 
> Squished and unSquished version), and then gets confused when
> trying to erase one.  The solution is to rename one, and then
> reboot.  Then you can get rid of the offending file.  A bit of a
> hassle.  DC says that they will consider circumventing the problem 
> in the next version by using their own delete routine instead of 
> relying on TOS.
 

	The usual way of accomplishing this is to create your output
file under another name, like compress.$$$  (standard CPM tmp file).
Then when you close it, you delete the original and rename the temp file
to the original name.  Not a difficult task, and does not force major
program revisions / programming kludges.

 [more stuff deleted]
 
 
- P.S.  Last week the on the Delphi Atari weekly conference we decided
- a great hack would be to have the pink Energizer bunny come booming 
- across the monitor from time to time with a digitized voice saying
- "...still going...".  Sometimes across the bottom, sometimes across
- the top or up and down the sides.  A DC program of the week, perhaps?
 
Have they seen NetBunny for the Mac?  Does a nice job of this on networked
Mac-IIs (with sys 6.05 and 32-bit Qdraw only).  Goes around to each of the
machines in turn, banging on the drum.  Makes it nearly impossible to get
anything done.  And you gotta reboot to stop it.


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