Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!neil From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ***HELP*** Floppy gone crazy!?!?! Message-ID: <1929@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 4 Aug 88 07:47:06 GMT References: <880801064254.135611@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA> Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Lines: 32 In article <880801064254.135611@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA> Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA writes: > Intro deleted >Well, I got the directory up and much to my surprise, there were many >groups of two files with exactly the same name. I opened the files >(they were DOC files so I could view them on the desktop). One of the >files had zero K and the other seemed ok. This sounds like the Fcreate bug that Allan Pratt addressed some time ago. I was actually going ask if this is fixed in the new ROMs but I guess it is since he knew about it. The problem is that Fcreate doesn't check to see if the Fdelete it does to remove the old file is successful and goes and makes another file. Being the foolhardy git that I am I would storm in there weilding a disk editor and change the names of the duplicate names directly. Re-open the disk and save what was useful. _____________________________________________________________________________ / "I think all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of \ ! being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with ! ! being sick and tired. I'm certainly not and I'm sick and tired of being ! ! told that I am!" - Monty Python ! ! ! ! Neil Forsyth JANET: neil@uk.ac.hw.cs ! ! Dept. of Computer Science ARPA: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk ! ! Heriot-Watt University UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil ! ! Edinburgh ! ! Scotland ! \_____________________________________________________________________________/