Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DIGA! lockup
Message-ID: <5279@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 18:35:03 GMT
References: <1956@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1956@van-bc.UUCP> lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips) writes:
>
>> ... after my system disk got renamed
>> `Lazarus' by somebodys bogus attempt at writing a virus I keep my system
>> disk write protected. ...
>
>The bogus attempt at a virus program that bit you in this case is called
>"DiskDoctor", and came from CBM.


Larry:  I'm surprised at you.  If you're going to answer a neo's question
you should do so in a way that removes some of the confusion, rather
than increasing it!

1. DiskDoctor is not a virus program.  It only runs when you ask
it to, and does not attempt to transfer itself to another system, and
does not attach itself to other programs.

When DiskDoctor cannot read the root block (where the name
of the disk is stored) it names the disk Lazarus.  (its a joke, son)

So you probably ran DiskDoctor on this disk at some time.

Diskdoctor 1.3 works pretty well.  Except for the amount of ram it uses
to build its visit map.  (1 meg of ram per 20 meg of disk).
It doesn't move things into the root capriciously any more, and
is more verbose about what it is doing.
-- 
andy finkel		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

"Possibly this is a new usage of the word 'compatible' with which
 I was previously unfamiliar"

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