Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!sdd.hp.com!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!ub!jmpiazza From: jmpiazza@acsu.buffalo.edu (Joseph M. Piazza) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Anyone using prodigy with an AMIGA? (long) Summary: It's all latin to me. Message-ID: <75702@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 9 May 91 16:27:08 GMT References: <1991May02.160135.20734@convex.com> <1991May5.205134.665@bilver.uucp> <1991May7.001840.8440@bilver.uucp> <62040@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> <1991May7.154936.17734@ncsu.edu> <946@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Distribution: na Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci Lines: 44 Nntp-Posting-Host: sybil.cs.buffalo.edu In article <946@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes: >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 > >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. For what it's worth, I recall finding some very bizzarre info in a file while using Digital Research's Symbolic Debugger under CP/M (ancient history, I know). For the life of me I couldn't figure out how it got there. But if you stop and consider how many commands and utilities we execute and forget about, it should be obvious to any non-paranoid that it could easily happen. How does he know it's a list of ALL his .BAT files? How does he know what disk they were from? He probably listed them some time or another -- and promptly forgot about it ... again. Experts do that kind of stuff too. Otherwise I am forced to conclude that Digital Research is part of the conspiracy (or should that be "was?" Are they still in business?) Flip side, joe piazza --- Cogito ergo equus sum. CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260 UUCP: ...!{watmath,boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!jmpiazza BITNET: jmpiazza@sunybcs.BITNET Internet: jmpiazza@cs.Buffalo.edu