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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 22:07:46 EDT
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- From: Robert Braham <RMB@CUNYVMS1>
- Subject: Re: File0000.chk
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- >From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- >>> b) if I had Colorado Memory Systems "TAPE Format" program running,
- >>> than what could've been "open"? Nothing, right, but for it?
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- >The TAPE program should not have left any lost clusters upon power
- >loss, unless you were using it from a DOS shell rather than from the
- >primary DOS environment (as you would, for example, if you had
- >"exit"-ed from NB, or used the "dos" NB command to get a DOS command
- >line). If you were shelled from another program and the *other*
- >program had files open in write mode that could be the source of the
- >problem.
-
- At the time I had nothing running but the CMS program (I didn't
- even _know_ you could run it at the same time, in a non-multi-tasking
- env.), running under 4dos. Curious.
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- >One bad habit that many computer users get into is just turning the
- >machine off when done, without regard to the current status of the
- >file system. Always quit all programs all the way back to DOS before
- >turning off the machine or rebooting. . . . .
-
- True. Many times it is much more satisfying to turn off the machine
- in disgust, w/ an unfinished project in NB staring at you in the face
- ("take _that_"), and Ive done it often. Will revise my aggressive
- behavior (but what remains open in NB after all is saved and caches
- are flushed? The programs themselves won't simply be erased from RAM,
- w/ no harm done to their disk setup)?
-
- Paul also suggests that the chkdsk /f was picking up stray data from
- previous sessions: undoubtedly, but 800K? I defragged about a week ago
- and found nothing, so clearly something happened when the power was
- pulled.
-
- Robert Braham
- Graduate School of the City University of New York
- Bitnet: RMB@cunyvms1.bitnet
- Internet: RMB@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
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