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- From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
- Subject: Re: GSHK 1.0.6 - NASTY bug zapped my disk!
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- Reply-To: jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
- Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
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- Date: 13 Sep 92 04:03:07 GMT
- References: <1992Sep13.020242.6361@jlc.mv.com>
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- In article <1992Sep13.020242.6361@jlc.mv.com> scot@jlc.mv.com (Scot Salmon) writes:
- >This may have already been posted a zillion times, but since I don't remember
- >it...
- >
- >I found a very nasty bug in GSHK tonight. I had an archive on a disk (not
- >my HD) and GSHK on my HD. I double-clicked to archive to open it, which
- >worked fine. Turned out the archive contained a disk, so I took out of
- >of my spiffy new blank disks and told it to extract the archive onto
- >my 3.5" AppleDisk (what's the device...AppleDisk3.5A or something). Anyway,
- >it said, "Format this disk?" (because it was unformatted - a very reasonable
- >question, really), and I said, go ahead. A few moments later, it was
- >formatted. Now GSHK prompts me to put in the disk with the archive on it,
- >assumably so it can read the archive into memory. However, it doesn't
- >stop there; with no further prompting, it just starts writing to the
- >disk with the archive on it (overwriting the archive in the process)!
- >
- I think you can only do what you tried to do with 2 3.5 Drives, since
- ShrinkitGS does not/cannot distinquish between source and target disk.
- It's unfortunate you had to learn about this the hard way, I remember
- there was a discussion on this awhile back on a local BBS.
-
- Maybe the next incarnation of ShrinkIt (with Self-extracting archive)
- will solve this problem.
-
- >How annoying! And it couldn't even finish extracting, since it overwrote
- >itself and when it needed to read the next chunk, I didn't have it!
- >
- >ARGH.
- >
- >--
- > - Scot Salmon (scot@jlc.mv.com)
- >
-
- Jimmy
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- Jimmy Shaw RamFAST, ZipGSX and 6.0... Apple II Forever!
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