alexew@watdcsu.UUCP (11/25/86)
Can anyone find an explanation to this one, I'm dumbfounded ! We've recently had a problem with a program ( The Waterloo JANET Network file server program ) on an PC-AT under DOS 3.1. The program runs at about 200 sites world wide ( for over a year ) and has never had this happen before, nor can I envision how it could happen. This program was running for several days ( quite normal ) but when the system was shut down a 15M file ( contiguous ) on the hard disk had a 5M hole in the middle. ( front linked to back piece, zeroes in FAT in between. ). Has anyone else had this experience ? / Does anyone understand the mechanism / a mechanism which caused it ?..... Thanks in advance. -- Alex E. Wielhouwer