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From: TRM900@PSUVM.BITNET (Tony R. Marasco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 154I drive problem
Message-ID: <89103.101343TRM900@PSUVM>
Date: 13 Apr 89 14:13:43 GMT
References: <3738@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing
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In the note,"154I drive problem", sl161004@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (David Chary) says:
>
>Suppose I have a number of files, "FILE A", "FILE B",... "FILE n".
>When I save FILE K using "@):FILE K", it does what it is told.
>But later, I want to use FILE G, which I know is a different file.
>so I load "FILE G" and much to my surprise it is "FILE K"!
>
>What is happening to the disk or the drive?
>
>Reply-To: sl161004@silver.bacs.indiana.edu

A similar problem with the @:filename option happened to me, too.  The files
would expand to many more blocks than necessary, and sometimes the links to
the sectors would get garbled (hence, you problem).  I gave up on @:filename
completely.  When I want to update a file, I do:

OPEN15,8,15,"S0:filename":CLOSE15
SAVE"0:filename",8

I was using an older 1541 at the time, but I still don't trust @:...
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