Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 19:25:06 04/06/00
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On April 06, 2000 at 21:14:51, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On April 06, 2000 at 17:32:20, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>I moved the file to a new directory, booted to DOS, and did a deltree. That >>fixed it. >> >>I have no idea why nothing else worked (I must have tried a dozen things) but >>the problem's solved, so never mind. >> >>Thanks for the input. >> >>-Tom > >I think the title to your original post "lenoid's chess program screwed my hard >drive--suggestions?" is quite rude to Leonid. Clearly, it did not "screw" your >hard drive. Perhaps my hard drive was not sparking and smoking, but the file that Lenoid's program wrote was causing my file system to behave in a completely unacceptable fashion. >It also did not help matters to mis-describe the problem. You state "...which I >can not open, _move_, rename...". Then you solve the problem by doing precisely >what you said you could not. You _move_ the file, etc. What I said was partially correct. When I tried to move the file under DOS, it would just give me an error message. Later I found out that I could move the file under Windows. I posted to this effect several times, later in this thread, and I'm sorry for the confusion. >My guess is Leonid's editor introduced some strange, "non-visible" character >into the file name. I think it would be helpful if you do what can to determine >definitively the cause of the problem and apologize to Leonid for what was >clearly an gross exaggeration. Leonid is problably one of the most inoffensive, >patient & polite posters around here. I just got some e-mail from Lenoid saying that his program puts ASCII 255's at the end of the file name. I assume this behavior is intentional. I think it's completely unacceptable for several reasons: 1) It keeps Windows from opening, deleting, or renaming the file. Lenoid knew about this and didn't do anything about it. 2) It takes special effort to type in ASCII 255's under DOS. I don't see why anybody would want to do this. Plus, how is somebody supposed to know that the filename ends in ASCII 255's? 3) Lenoid's program prompts you for a filename. If I type in "asdf", then it should save the file in asdf, not asdf with some flakey extension. I even read the readme file and it didn't say anything about this stuff. In short, I feel justified in being upset about such behavior. -Tom
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