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- From: kirkenda@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steve Kirkendall)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Elvis & MS-DOS
- Message-ID: <8@pdxgate.UUCP>
- Date: 29 Aug 90 22:18:03 GMT
-
- Sorry to post this non-source article in a sources newsgroup, but...
-
- There are two MS-DOS specific bugs that people should watch for. The first
- bug is that "Elvis.prj" and "Elvis.lnk" both refer to a bunch of files in
- a subdirectory named "termcap". Oops. They should refer to tinytcap.c
- instead. In Elvis.prj, delete all lines that start "termcap\" and add a
- line that reads "tinytcap". In Elvis.lnk, delete all of the "termcap\*.obj"
- filenames and add "tinytcap.obj".
-
- The other bug is potentially dangerous. I have been told that MS-DOS can't
- rename an open file, safely; if you try it you may damage your filesystem.
- Because of this, I recommend that everybody stop using MS-DOS immediately.
- If you must use MS-DOS, then be careful when running Elvis, because Elvis
- is likely to rename its temporary file when you switch to another text file.
-
- SO DON'T SWITCH TO A DIFFERENT FILE WHILE RUNNING ELVIS UNDER MS-DOS.
-
- The damage, by the way, is that "lost clusters" tend to accumulate on your
- disk. The clusters are marked as being allocated, but there is no file that
- contains them. This condition poses no threat to the data on your disk, but
- it does reduce the amount of disk space available.
-
- No patches yet -- I just wanted to get the warning out.
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