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- From: ac803@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael W. Kelley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: 2 Q's: BMI & SAVE@
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 02:26:29 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1993Jan27.060956.413@netcom.com> <1993Jan17.192438.12044@netcom.com> <C17In9.28u@fulcrum.co.uk> <1993Jan22.062624.23025@netcom.com> <30370@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <1993Jan24.043922.20002@netcom.com> <1k0dmtINN9ij@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
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- In a previous article, fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) says:
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- >No. It is known as the @-Save Bug because it appears in the @-Save
- >code.
- >
- >>As far as I can tell from what people have been saying, the bug is caused by
- >>a failure to correctly load/store the BAM if the drive number is omitted.
- >
- >You can look at what people say on the net, or you can look at what
- >actually happens inside the drive. The choice is yours.
- >
- >>scratch-save is safer than save@, but it will still fail from time to time.
- >
- >I have hacked with 1541 DOS for a decade without seeing scratch-then-
- >save cause any disk corruption. I must have phenomenal luck.
- Heh, I have only run across the 'bug' when a user has typed in the
- command incorrectly. If you look at it, it doesn't take much to make an
- error. When typed and used correctly and EXACTLY, no problems.
- Guess you're as good as your programming Fuzzy!
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