Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalcs!aucs!840493n
From: 840493n@aucs.UUCP (Bill Nickerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dillon's Shell Gripe...is it fixed?
Message-ID: <1491@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 89 19:18:01 GMT
References: <8901090859.AA22394@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: 840493n@aucs.UUCP (Bill Nickerson)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia (yeah!)
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In article <8901090859.AA22394@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
>	Yow!  strange.  This is a bug, but not in my shell.  This is a bug
>in the filesystem.  Interesting though, when you do it in RAM: the directory
>gets blown away but the memory is still allocated.
>
>					-Matt
>

Sorry for blaming it on the shell, Matt, but I rarely use Commodore's CLI
and I thought it may have been an oversight in shell's code. Well, well, well.
I hope C= is reading this and think about it a bit. Admittedly, it probably
happens very rarely, but point being, it shouldn't happen at all. I can see
myself learning a lot about the filesystem in the near future.... Just for
interest's sake, I tried using DiskSalv to fix it first. The results were 
interesting. The version on FF#20 found the directory that had been moved into
itself (at block 886 or so), but stopped - just stopped - when it went to print
the name to the screen. A later version of it fared slightly better. It managed
to find and print the name of the directory at block 886, but stopped with
either a "software error - task held", just plain nothing, or a guru at block
901. All the time. Period. Oh well. I'm using Sectorama now, and poking around
trying to see if I can patch things up. I know that the disk structures are
given in the AmigaDOS Reference Manual, but since that is at home, is there
any other reference around, maybe in Amazing Computing or AmigaWorld? I have
the Lattice C 4.0 compiler. Is there anything useful there? Thanx a lot.

...Bill.