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From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone using prodigy with an AMIGA?
Message-ID: <1991May6.173530.28391@ncsu.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 17:35:30 GMT
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>>[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.

Apparently the cause for that is also similar to the first explanation:
previously used data is still in _memory_, and is written out along
with the new Prodigy info to whichever disk is then being used.  It
really seems to be an innocent deal.  Tho no doubt Prodigy will revamp
their software to clear memory/disk space out first from now on <g>.
  best - kev <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>