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From: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Hyper C
Summary: Files that won't delete
Message-ID: <512@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 89 16:00:48 GMT
References: <511@madnix.UUCP>
Reply-To: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Distribution: usa
Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI
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In article <511@madnix.UUCP> I wrote:
| ....I tried to
| delete the old files - that is, all the files with the Binscii'd text and the
| Shrinkit-packed file - and none of them would delete.  Copy II+ and BLU
| report error $56, bad buffer address.  BASIC says NO BUFFERS AVAILABLE.

I then wrote a program KILL whose sole purpose was to make a DESTROY call to
the Prodos MLI.  It too returned an Error #56.  According to the Apple
Prodos Technical Reference Manual and Beneath Apple Prodos, the DESTROY call
does NOT return an error #56.

Then I had a flash... I normally use Prodos v1.1.1 because of a modified
QUIT code I had.  So, I thought, what if I use that Prodos v1.4 that I've
been saving... lo and behold, the files deleted ok.

Is this a Prodos BUG?  Sure sounds like it.  Of course, we're up to 1.7 now
are we not?

        [david]

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