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Subject: Re: Weird Behavior (Kermit inits AEPC)
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Date: 22 May 89 21:29:38 GMT
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>From:         TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA
>Subject:      more, weird behavior (/ramaepc)

>First, to recapitulate:  I discovered recently (I think after I changed
>how I was using /ram5 and /ramaepc, the ram that comes with the AE PC
>Transporter) that the second time I try to catalog (cat) files on
>/ramapec from within kermit all the files disappear, i.e., the first and
>second cat's show everything fine, the third shows the volume as empty.
>This problem does not occur if I cat /ram5, for example, several times,
>from within kermit, OR, or if instead I cat or catalogue /ramaepc from
>BASIC.SYSTEM.  I'm using ProDos8 V1.7.  I didn't notice what version of
>BASIC.SYSTEM; kermit is 3.85.

[description of /RamAEPC blocks deleted]

>It looks to me like near the end of the second cat command, or just
>conceivably whenever whatever next tries to go at /ramaepc, something,
>(the /ramaepc driver?)  decides to re-initialize the volume, but that's
>only a speculation.

>Any ideas oh guru's????  Can anyone else reproduce this behavior?

        Yes, we just reproduced your results.  We're running GS/OS
4.0, Basic.System 1.2, & Kermit 3.85 on a PCT-equipped 1.5M GS.

        It seems that the re-initalization occurs at the time of the
3rd CAT access from Kermit, independent of whether the 3rd access
immediately follows the 2nd access.  We tried exiting to Basic.System
and doing a few CATs from there, then re-entering Kermit.  We also
tried triple-CATting other disks (somewhat nervously) and observed no
damage to those disks.

        I'll forward this information on to Ted Medin, the current
maintainer of Kermit-65, and see if he has any thoughts on it.


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