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Subject: Re: lenoid's chess program screwed my hard drive--suggestions?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 11:35:17 04/06/00

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On April 06, 2000 at 13:54:09, Hristo wrote:

>Tom,
>have you given any thought to using linux instead of the dos/windows combo.
>FAT is old and generaly very nasty (easy to screw-up) file system.

Yeah, I used Linux for a long time. Now I'm using Windows mainly because I like
Visual C. I think gcc and gdb are pretty pathetic in comparison. There are other
programs that I like to run under Windows which are not available for Linux.

>BTW.
>  Try Norton Disk Doctor it might help. If I remeber correctly a space character
>in a file name within dos(FAT) could couse the system to see the file, but not
>be able to do anything with it. There were a bunch of bugs related to this ...
>it was long ago I don't remember the details anymore.
>Good-luck ..:)

Is there some sort of comparable freeware package? I don't feel like buying
something to clear up this stupid problem with one single file.

-Tom



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