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From: flaps@utcsri.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: WARNING!  vt100 v2.6 can (I think) trash disks.
Message-ID: <4591@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Apr-87 22:11:46 EST
Article-I.D.: utcsri.4591
Posted: Wed Apr 15 22:11:46 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Apr-87 02:35:59 EST
Reply-To: flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal)
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I have corrupted three floppy disks in the last couple of weeks.  These are
the only disks I have ever corrupted on my Amiga (besides two that I pulled out
while writing, shortly after I got my Amiga).  All three corruptions happened
while downloading files with vt100 v2.6 using kermit.  I have only been using
vt100 v2.6 a short while before the first corruption.

(I download lots of stuff, fairly frequently, and just generally move around
lots of files.)

I'm not sure if vt100 v2.6 is necessarily to blame, but it sure seems like it.
The only other thing I am usually using since the previous reboot is Manx's
Z editor, which I used while running vt100 v2.{2,3,4}, extensively, without
problems.  Of course it's possible that this could be a fault of the Z editor
I suppose.  But I am fairly sure that at least one of the three times would
have happened without using the Z editor.

-- 

Alan J Rosenthal

flaps@csri.toronto.edu, {seismo!utai or utzoo}!utcsri!flaps,
flaps@toronto on csnet, flaps at utorgpu on bitnet.

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