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- From: jfarmer@cs.utk.edu (JOHN FARMER)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
- Subject: diseased Kaypro/Wordstar
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 18:02:55 GMT
- Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department
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- Summary: semi-random disk problems
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- I have a Kaypro 4'84, and I'm using Wordstar 4.0, and I have a problem
- somewhere. I keep looking part of 'large-files'. What's happening is that
- parts of files are disappearing only to be replaced with other (duplicate)
- parts of the same file.
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- The first times it happened, I was working on a large file on a full disk,
- and I just assumed that when I had tried to save, and there wasn't room, that
- Wordstar got lost when it stopped to tell me there wasn't any room and I had
- to delete stuff to continue. The latest time it happened, I was working on
- a much smaller file on a virtually empty disk. (and to make it worse,
- I was dutifully saving every so often, so there was no backup file to
- get the data from. I lost about 2-3 hours of work.)
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- My husband thinks it's a disk drive problem. I'm not so sure. I don't
- seem to have the problem with pip, for instance. Any suggestions? Ideas?
- I do re-build Wordstar ever so often. I use it all the time, and the disk
- "goes bad" every so often.
-
- All help appreciated.
-
- Thanks
- Susan
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- Susan B. Farmer farmer@cs.utk.edu Lady Jerusha Kilgore
- I can't even find time to clean house and you want me to come up with a .sig?
- And now she wants to go back to grad school after 14 years .....
- We'll let her out when the delusion passes.
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