TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (11/17/88)
As someone pointed out, Backup II chokes if directories are even slightly badly formatted. I have discovered that somehow two (yes, two, but only two) of the nearly 100 directories I have on my 40Meg hardrive had somehow had their access field set to $FF. (resetting it manually to $C3 with the the ProDos16 exerciser makes backup happy.) Question -- do any of the Prodos experts have any idea how the fields could have received those values? I have not noticed anything wrong in any other place, although I suppose a few random bytes wrong here or there might go unnoticed. (I don't do any block-level I/O and except for a small program to change the type on some files -- but never used on the two in question -- I don't even have any binary programs of my own.) TMPLee@dockmaster.arpa