JFORREST@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Jim Forrest) (03/05/85)
Downloaded SAP41.LBR and like a Sap I ran sap41. Lost 5 megabytes of files. Erased all files then formatted 90% of directory tracks and left me with mostly files that were already erased (maybe all it left was files already erased). Jim
T.MOORE%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA (Andrew Moore) (03/06/85)
--- ... Seems like there's a rash of this going aroound. First it was VDIR, now SAP. I guess the only way to avoid this sort of thing is for ALL RCP/M SYSOPS to copy any un-heard-of file to a floppy (unless this joker renames it to an existing program... shiver) and test it out there. It's certainly an inconvenience for RCP/M SysOps, but it's better than losing the contents of your hard drive. -dru T.MOORE%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA --------------- Received: from AMSAA by MIT-MC.ARPA; TUE 5 MAR 1985 0953 EST Received: from simtel20.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a006986; 5 Mar 85 9:31 EST Date: Monday, 4 March 1985 07:17-MST Message-ID: <KPETERSEN.12092598612.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARPA> Sender: Jim Forrest <JFORREST@SIMTEL20.ARPA> From: Jim Forrest <JFORREST@SIMTEL20.ARPA> To: KPETERSEN@SIMTEL20.ARPA Subject: SAP41 WARNING!!! ReSent-From: KPETERSEN@simtel20.ARPA ReSent-To: Info-Cpm@AMSAA.ARPA ReSent-Date: Tue 5 Mar 1985 07:28-MST Downloaded SAP41.LBR and like a Sap I ran sap41. Lost 5 megabytes of files. Erased all files then formatted 90% of directory tracks and left me with mostly files that were already erased (maybe all it left was files already erased). Jim -------