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From: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo C vs Quick C
Keywords: good better best
Message-ID: <2563@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 88 22:06:33 GMT
References: <389@lscvax.UUCP> <567@naucse.UUCP> <1515@homxb.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1515@homxb.UUCP> mr@homxb.UUCP (mark) writes:
>GODDAM !!!  I also had quick C blow away my drive. It wrote
>all over the FAT table. The program was as simple as you can
>get :
>
>	fp = fopen(.. some file ..)
>	fclose(fp);

Yes, that's old news.  Some versions of Western Digital XT Hard Disk
controller software use a software interrupt that conflicts with
software interrupt usage by QC.  Certainly, the folks at Microsoft
chose the software interrupt they used just to spite you.

Of course, others might say that QC works just fine but your disk
controller is brain damaged and wiped out your disk.

In any case, it has nothing to do with the program, simple or otherwise.
-- 
Greg Laskin           
"When everybody's talking and nobody's listening, how can we decide?"
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