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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: <invalid> <invalid> <invalid>
Keywords: B2000 real-time clock slammed dead 16 bit compress multiple arguments
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Date: 11 May 88 20:22:48 GMT
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In article <2504@k.cc.purdue.edu| ahg@k.cc.purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) writes:
|I use (16 bit) compress on my Amiga 2000.  It works great except that the
|version I use (one from a FF disk, not the one in the archives here) does
||terrible< things when you give it multiple file names.
|The first time I did this (months ago), there was an impressive graphic display
|with incredible sound effects.  When I rebooted, my real time clock said it
|was sometime in 1939!  This was strange, but it gets worse:
|
|The machine said (this is from memory, so it might be wrong): Internal clock
|not functioning.  That's all it would say from the setclock command (whether
|loading or saving).
|
|I then cold started the 2000.  The setclock command then only returned the
|incredibly baffling: <invalid| <invalid| <invalid|.
|
|We decided that the clock was in a funny state and sought a hardware solution.
|We opened the box and decided to (very) momentarily short the battery (it
|doesn't come out).  This fixed the clock problems, but doesn't seem to me to
|be a healthy thing to do.
|
|First, how did the clock get "slammed"?  Secondly, is there a software solution


Almost ALL the time I crash the 2000 when testing my software the clock gets
screwed up.  Running setclock works 50% of the time.  The other 50% I have to
COLD boot and then run setclock and everything gets back in order.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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