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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: Anyone using prodigy with an AMIGA?
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Date: 6 May 91 16:38:56 GMT
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In article <1991May5.205134.665@bilver.uucp> alex@bilver.uucp (Alex Matulich) writes:
>In article <1991May02.160135.20734@convex.com> swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:
>[lots of quotes about how Prodigy must be stealing private data deleted]
>
>COME ON PEOPLE!  You are making a fuss about what is probably nothing at
>all.  Doesn't anybody realize that under MSDOS, when a program allocates
>file space for itself on the hard disk, that space may contain fragments
>of files that used to occupy that space?  When you allocate file space,
>the space is NOT cleared.
>
	The post mentioned that the person ran Prodigy off of a
floppy and files from the hard drive still appeared in that file.
Of course, I don't know if that's true or not, but it was
mentioned and it is a pretty clear proof.

	-- Ethan

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