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From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: save-with-replace (was C64 Manual****Saving Files)
Message-ID: <1387@killer.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 03:38:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 23 03:38:19 1987
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in article <252@uwslh.UUCP>, lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka) says:
> In article <2214@cbmvax.UUCP> eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton) writes:
>>A word of caution here: It is not advisable to use save-with-replace on
>>the old 1541 disk drives.  Delete the file first and then save the new
>>version.
>>
>>	Eric Cotton
>>	Commodore-Amiga
> 
> Hmmmm... I *have* been using the @0: command on my old 1541 drive
> since I have had it (four or five years now), and have NEVER had any
> problems.

Luck, Christopher. I lost a LOT of work with save-with-replace. This happened
in an assembly-language-develpment environment, with me saving the text back
to disk about once every 5 minutes, using the @0: (WITH the zero -- I'd heard
about that, too). It didn't help. I eventually ended up with a "Not Source
File" error, and when I went and looked at the disk with Disk Doctor, it was
obvious why -- my source file had disappeared into la-la land, after the first
couple of sectors, it then sorta mosied on over and became part of a binary
file.  This has happened to me several times under several different
environments (1541, semi-modern ROM, both Merlin and PAL assemblers). It also
happened to me with Easy Script, which especially loved eating files if you
didn't scratch them first.

I've never had problems on my SFD-1001 (although you must use the zero there,
too -- apparently, when Commodore designed the SFD, they forgot that it was no
longer a dual drive, so you can access drive 1, and the SFD  locks with a
"drive not ready?" error!). 
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