Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ubvax!ardent!rap
From: rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: shell 3.01A bug?
Summary: it just ain't so
Keywords: shell bug
Message-ID: <1891@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 22:29:54 GMT
References: <603@uvicctr.UUCP> <8657@swrinde.swri.edu>
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <8657@swrinde.swri.edu>, kent@swrinde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
> >is there any easy fix?
> 
> This happens to me under 1.2 & 1.3. I used to use the PD version of
> VDK:, but had to quit using it since Shell 3.01A locks up on it fairly

I guess occasionally we have to post a reminder... there NEVER was an
official PD version of VDK:.  This was always a commercial (though a
VERY low cost) product written by Neil Katin, once of Amiga Computer.
At one point in time, when version 1.0 of the product was out, someone
Hacked the binary to remove Neil's copyright notice and then posted
the binary as though it was a PD product.  It is not, and was not PD.
I have the commercial version and am quite satisfied with it and there
are patches to it available (on PLINK for one) that makes it not
report "full" if asked if there is room for a file so downloading into
VDK: from some terminal programs works just fine.  SOMETIMES when I
compile and test programs, I manage to kill VDK:, but then when my
programs go awry, I probably kill VD0: and RAD: as well --- wild
pointers ahoy!

Anyway, if anyone STILL thinks that any version of VDK: is Public
Domain, they are mistaken and if it is still roaming on various
BBS's, the owner/operator should be told to remove it.

Nuff said.

Rob Peck