jhs@disunix.UUCP (05/30/86)
Users of MYDOS who have been having problems with funny characters appearing in their text may find the solution to their problems in the following: I had been getting occasional extraneous characters on my printer when copying a file to the printer. Under some conditions, these characters also appeared in disk files and could be seen with an editor. Typically it would be a single character like R or 1, repeated periodically throughout a file or printed document. Needless to say it was both mysterious and annoying. Yesterday I received a tip from Paul Swanson, a local hardware/software guru (who is also an Atari dealer, by the way). The culprit seems to have been a bug in MYDOS which causes it to work incorrectly when the data flow is through the 850 interface. I rebuilt my word processor disk, which I had set up with MYDOS, to use vanilla Atari DOS 2.0S, and the problem seems to have cleared up. I believe the problem also occurs on a terminal emulator disk which is also built with MYDOS. I have not had a chance to see if the fix works there also. -John Sangster jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa