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From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Intruder Alert!)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Warning about terminating DOS windows
Message-ID: <13994@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 91 16:54:17 GMT
References: <1319@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <1991May13.015116.163@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
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[Stories of DOS trouble after using "Terminate" option deleted]

Well, the problems described are trivial in comparison to what happened to me.
I had BRIEF and a COMMAND running, switching between the two to edit and
compile/run a C program. Well, I had to kill the DOS shell a couple of times
because the program hung. Then I started up another shell and ran CodeView
in it to debug my code. *WHAM* *BAM* It somehow violated system integrity
and Windows killed it off for me. No problem. Just pull up another DOS shell,
go back to BRIEF, make a few changes and write out my file.

Ooops.

Something, somewhere got *VERY* confused. As BRIEF wrote out my file, it
also copied the subdirectory I was working out of *ON TOP OF* the root
directory. So, I had a root directory that looked just like my /language/c
directory, and no way to access the rest of the disk. CHKDSK seemed to belive
the whole setup was kosher (SP?) and said nothing was wrong (save for a few
garbled entries in the directory).

To make a long story short, I ordered a copy of Mace Utilities, and had to
resort to the "unformat" option to recover everything. Must say, though, Mace
did a great job. I only lost 5-10 files, and I had everything else back to
normal within 1/2 hour.

Moral: When the Windows God declareth that ye exit Windows and reboot, *LISTEN*

-Chris

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