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From: dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone using prodigy with an AMIGA? (long)
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Date: 8 May 91 19:38:26 GMT
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In <1991May7.154936.17734@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:

>As I mentioned before (!), the other possibility is that data previously
>read into memory is being sent out to disk along with the Prodigy data.
>I'd really rather hear facts from a _real_ computer expert who checks
>this out... instead of reports from users who don't know how their
>machine is set up or operates.  best - kev <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>

If you read the posting, please notice that the user claimed that ALL
of his ".BAT" files were listed, not just autoexec.bat.

I can understand caution, in this matter.  However, it is not necessary
for you to presume that those users are ignorant (even if they do have
PCs).  MS-DOS is not very complicated, so expertise is readily gained,
even by moderate users.  The person I share space with, at work, is a
trained, experienced computer professional (MS-DOS and UNIX, internals
and applications), who found data from a different DRIVE copied into
the Prodigy file, in a clean-room test as you describe.  Since the
data related to his income tax, he was understandably upset, and has
cancelled.

Dan Taylor