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- From: Jan.Lucenius@tel.vtt.fi (Jan Lucenius)
- Subject: bug in amigabasic ?
- Sender: news@tik.vtt.fi (USENET)
- Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 08:01:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <BuM0xz.G00@tik.vtt.fi>
- Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
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- Description of what happened:
-
- I have a basic program which among other things appends lines to a text
- file in the format
- <integer>,"string",<real value>,<integer>,<integer>
- for example
- 12,"gefgwe",12.6,3,20
-
- It has worked perfectly for 2.5 years (as long as you remember to not
- put a comma in the string). Now for some reason
- - the existing file was deleted - and it is very unlikely that anyone else
- would have deleted them
- - some of the integers in the beginning of the lines were missing causing
- TYPE MISMATCH when reading the file with the same program.
-
- The disk have sometimes been affected by the SCA virus, but that is removed
- long ago.
-
- I also booted the computer with the "copy of extras" disk where the program
- reside on the root directory, and all the files that it uses.
-
- Thought that the disk would have been too full, as one of these files is
- created for each calendar month, but rebooting the computer (A 500 with
- total 1 M memory, one external disk drive and kickstart switch with 2.04
- and 1.3 ROMs) with WB 2.04 showed that there should still have been 14K
- left.
-
- Any ideas of how the files have disappeared?
-
- Jan
-