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

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 11:37:36 04/06/00

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On April 06, 2000 at 14:07:08, Robin Smith wrote:

>On April 06, 2000 at 13:09:10, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>I decided to download Lenoid's chess program to see how it compares to TSCP.
>>
>>I used his program to save a game. It wrote a file to my desktop which I can not
>>open, move, rename, or delete.
>>
>>Can anybody think of a solution to this problem? I've rebooted and run Scandisk
>>from DOS and Windows. It thinks everything is fine. I don't have any other disk
>>utilities.
>>
>>-Tom
>>
>>P.S.  TSCP won _decisively_.
>
>See if the file is referenced in the windows registry.  If it is, you should
>remove the reference, re-boot, and then you can delete the file.
>
>Robin Smith

A DOS program wrote the file. I assume it wouldn't put anything in the registry,
but I'll check, because I can't think of anything else to do.

-Tom



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