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- From: rwyble@schunix.uucp (Richard J. Wyble)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
- Subject: Re: diseased Kaypro/Wordstar
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.030126.28936@schunix.uucp>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 03:01:26 GMT
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- Organization: SCHUNIX Public Access Unix for Worcester County, MA, USA
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- jfarmer@cs.utk.edu (JOHN FARMER) writes:
- :
- : 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.
- :
-
- Hmn. It's been *many* moons since I used WS4 on a CP/M Kaypro. But I
- *did* use it, and I recall numerous strange quirks. The code simply
- did not seem to be mature in the manner of WS3.x. Though I did not
- experience what you describe, the red flag above is that "the disk
- "goes bad" every so often." This simply does not happen unless there
- are problems.
-
- Suggestion: start over with a fresh working disk and see what happens.
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- rwyble@schunix.uucp Richard J. Wyble
- schunix!rwyble@transfer.stratus.com Worcester, Massachusetts
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