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- From: mcg@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Bug alert : RO3.1 corrupts DOS files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.113418.12067@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 11:34:18 +1300
- References: <1992Nov9.002405.5422@cs.utwente.nl>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Lines: 45
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- In article <1992Nov9.002405.5422@cs.utwente.nl>, kortink@cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink) writes:
- > Serious RISCOS 3.1 bug alert !
- >
- > This concerns copying files to DOS floppies with background operations on,
- > which can corrupt files.
-
- >
- > The resulting JPEG files, after copy from Arc to floppy and then from floppy
- > to PC, were all correct, except two, which showed a strange 'Premature EOF'
- > error. Checking the lengths on both sides confirmed they were exactly equal
- > size. Then *DUMPing revealed that the last few bytes of the resulting DOS
- > files were definately corrupted.
-
- {massive cut>
-
- a) Have you experimented with ADFSbuffers on/off?
-
- b) Have you tried the same thing under !PCem (> vrs 1.7)?
-
- c) Has anyone else (non-RO2 converted machine) experienced this problem?
-
- d) What other hardware/apps were you running at the same time (I might of
- missed this in reading your message)?
-
-
- Note: I experienced this on your RO2 designed (pd) apps for saving the status,
- one extra byte was added to the file and your check was, say, <>120 bytes
- (i.e. your apps wrote out 120 bytes and the filer (??) added 1 byte to it
- effectively stuffing the status).
-
- From Martin Glanvill (mcg@waikato.ac.nz)
-
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