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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WARNING!  vt100 v2.6 can (I think) trash disks.
Message-ID: <1497@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 20:45:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 20 20:45:10 1987
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In article <4591@utcsri.UUCP> flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>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 had this problem with one of the early versions of VT100, tried doing a
full disk kermit (80% or so of a disk) and it crashed 2 times in a row with
a totally trashed disk.  I then gave up on VT100, and have been awaiting a
version that isn't quickly followed by scads of bug reports and bug fixes
(still waiting) out of fear of similar problems lurking therein.

>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.

I wasn't doing anything else but the kermit since boot.  It was a fully
unattended transfer, I was off elsewhere during the transfers.

After reformat, I used another kermit, and worked fine.  May have been
doing a binary transfer, not sure (it's been a while).

Keith Doyle
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