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From: mab@druky.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Save with replace '@:' trashes files ???????
Message-ID: <680@druky.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-May-84 10:02:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 22 10:02:52 1984
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Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver
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Never, never, never use the '@:' save with replace command!
It worked fine for me for about a month.  Then all of a
sudden, I had several directory entries pointing at the
same block on disk, and I had lost a large file (I spent a day
poking around the disk trying to recover the lost file,
but to no avail).  I now tediously rename the old file
before saving the new one.  This has the advantage of keeping
several backup copies of the file until I get around to
deleting the old ones.

It's a shame Commodore still documents this command, but of
course I've never seen any good documentation from Commodore.

		Alan Bland, ihnp4!druky!mab
		AT&T-ISL, Denver