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From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: save-with-replace (was C64 Manual****Saving Files)
Message-ID: <265@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 12:52:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwslh.265
Posted: Sat Sep 19 12:52:41 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 22-Sep-87 00:52:05 EDT
References: <252@uwslh.UUCP> <1387@killer.UUCP> <270@Mannix.iros1.UUCP>
Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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In article <270@Mannix.iros1.UUCP> desmarai@iros1.UUCP (Stephane Desmarais) writes:
>In article <1387@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
>>in article <252@uwslh.UUCP>, lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka) says:
>>> [My message concerning never losing files with @0:]
>>
>> [A kind person replying to warning me of the danger...]
>
> [Another person warning me that I have been confused]

Since I am the one who started this (again, 'cause I am sure it's been
discussed before), I will hopefully formally close this discussion.  I
have been a fool.  I thought I was safe because I specified the drive
number in the command itself, but I did not realize I had to specify
the drive every time.  Oh well, guess I can't use that command
anymore...  [quiet sobbing] it is a real nuisance to have to delete
the old file and then resave, and dangerous as well.  But if the @0:
command does not work properly, as Curtis Blow sang "These are the
breaks!"

>Or issue the disk command "uj" which does a reset of the drive.

One place where I used the command a lot was in my Cpower work disk,
but since I used fastload, I always had to send a 'disk u;' command
after a major operation.  That probably saved my butt quiter often.

*** A final question ***
Does the fastload cartridge fix the @0: command problem?  How about
Elite's fast load software?  Those are the two programs I use the
most, and I would like to keep using it in these two places.  Anyone
have the answers?

One funny ending comment...I have never had problems with the command.
In the end, I have never had lost files, although I may have had a
small problem with blocks not being freed up in the bitmap when I
delete something, but that happened only with one disk.  I must stress
that I used the @0: command a h*ll of a lot, and had nearly no
trouble, no corrupted files of file systems, no pains.  I must've been
damned lucky.

Live and learn..............

					-Chris



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Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene <-lishka%uwslh.uucp@rsch.wisc.edu
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