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- From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- Subject: Re: DOS FS deleting large files?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.044113.6179@athena.mit.edu>
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- Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 04:41:13 GMT
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- From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell)
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 03:21:55 GMT
-
- Well, more than once, when I have used that file to restore files using
- a normal "zcat" command, the file disappears, just as if it was deleted.
- CHKDSK shows no problems with the DOS partition.
-
- Which version of zcat are you using? There is a bug in some versions of
- compress/uncompress/zcat where zcat will erroneously delete its input
- file on some error, where "some error" can be your typing ^C on some
- versions....
-
- On machines where I'm undertain of zcat's vintage, I'm generally
- paranoid and will type "zcat < file", to make sure zcat won't be able to
- delete the file, even if it tries.
-
- - Ted
-