donald.phillipson@canremote.uucp (DONALD PHILLIPSON) (01/04/90)
Been using PCTOOLS for 6 weeks or so, but only recently noticed in my root directories .$$$ files of filename MODEPCTW, SYSTEPCT, DOSDOPCT and MISCPCTWP, each about 40k, contents of no particular interest: one was disk tree structure, if I remember right, and the latter two mostly text files, neither of which I had worked on recently. I earlier deleted the first two, but on seeing the latter today decided to leave them there, to see if they go away by themselves. Anyone know what these mean: not documented, so far as I know. Any harm in deleting them whenever come across? --- ~ Via ProDoor 3.2aR ~ RNet 1.03F: Synapse BBS - Gatineau PQ - (819) 561-5268
magner.consultants@canremote.uucp (MAGNER CONSULTANTS) (01/05/90)
DP>Been using PCTOOLS for 6 weeks or so, but only recently noticed in my DP>root directories .$$$ files of filename MODEPCTW, SYSTEPCT, DOSDOPCT and Donald: I haven't seen all the files you describe, but the one you thought looked like your disk's tree structure was probably just that. PCTools 5.5 has what we regard as a VERY dangerous default: when first run, it creates a tree file like the one you describe and then uses that file (NOT the disk directories) from that point forward to provide you with file and directory information. They do this to improve performance on large disks. The idea is fine as long as you NEVER delete or move files around outside of PCTools, since the disk would then no longer look like the tree file PCTools would use the next time you loaded it. It handles that VERY poorly, showing wildly erroneous information like empty directories which are actually full of files, or files in one directory when they're actually in another directory, or directories and files which have been deleted. You can manually tell PCTools to re-make its tree file (I forget the key sequence) regularly to reduce this danger, but on all our clients' machines we disable the feature entirely. You do this by adding the parameter /TR0 (that's "tee" "arr" "zero") to the command line in a batch file used to call PCShell, as in "PCSHELL /TR0". Then it ALWAYS reads the disk while you use it. Sorry I can't help you with the purpose of the other files, but maybe deleting them and then experimenting with the editor will show what they're for. We don't use PCTools' editor, and haven't seen those files. Could they be blocks of text you erased/copied/moved while working on files? ZDDDDDDDDDDDDD? 3 Mark Magner 3 @DDDDDDDDDDDDDY --- * QDeLuxe 1.10 #3429
mcmillan@dory.cis.ohio-state.edu (Harold McMillan) (01/23/90)
The $$$ files are work files left periodically by the editor in PCShell. They seem to show up when block deletes or moves are done. I think that they show up when you choose the 'exit' option before saving the file, but I have not verified it. I just delete them when I find them and I have had no problems. -=- Hal McMillan | "Government is the institutionalization mcmillan@cis.ohio-state.edu | of the desire to live off others" 72627.642@CompuServe.com |