Author: James Robertson
Date: 23:48:12 04/06/00
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On April 06, 2000 at 22:25:06, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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? Just out of curiosity, why does it append ASCII 255's to the filename? James > >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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