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Date: 26 May 88 22:21:07 GMT
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Date:     Thu, 26 May 88 14:19:37 -0900
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From:     Reflexion nioxelfeR     :morF    <AXDFM@ALASKA>


  I have been using Sparta DOS for a while, and twice I have seen a certain
thing happen.  It was fatal both times, and I never found out how it happened.
I haven't been able to reproduce the error yet.  This bug in Sparta DOS
will rename many different files to the same name.  I think it happened
both times while using the ERASE command, so it couldn't have been a typo
while renaming.  What is even weirder is that both times the new filename
was "SECTORS" or something like that.  I KNOW for a fact that SECTORS was
not a filename anywhere on the hard drive.

  Now the first time it happened, it only goofed up selected files in a
subdirectory (not all of them), but the second time it happened, it screwed
up an entire partition on a hard drive.  About 8 megs of files with the
same name....

  Has anyone had this problem?  Does anyone know anything about it?

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Frank Murphy