[comp.sys.amiga] ARP 1.3 CD BUG?

GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie) (09/15/89)

I apologize if someone has already mentioned this bug or if it is common
knowledge to the rest of you.

While testing my hard disk and C-LTD controller I ran into a apparent BUG or FEA
CD command.  I made the following script to fill my hard drive:

;file name is 'script', directory contains 6 megs of files
makedir t
copy #? t
cd t
execute script

The program runs and creates sub-directories up to 8 levels deep, and then
it quits with the following error:

> 2.Software:x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x> makedir x
> 2.Software:x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x> cd x
> Fatal error in CD
> 2.Software:x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x> why
> The last command failed because object not of required type

I then tried the stock WB1.3 CD command, and it worked fine.  (It proceeded
to create directories 50 levels deep before it ran out of room.)

rodger@hpdml93.HP.COM (Rodger Anderson) (09/16/89)

>/ hpdml93:comp.sys.amiga / GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie) / 10:51 pm  Sep 14, 1989 /

>I apologize if someone has already mentioned this bug or if it is common
>knowledge to the rest of you.
Well, it probably isn't know to everyone, but I ran into it, and I'm
sure I'm not the only one.

>The program runs and creates sub-directories up to 8 levels deep, and then
>it quits with the following error:

>> Fatal error in CD

>I then tried the stock WB1.3 CD command, and it worked fine.  (It proceeded
>to create directories 50 levels deep before it ran out of room.)
I reported this bug (in ARP 1.3 CD) on bix, where Charlie Heath (cheath)
said, yes, this is a bug.  I don't remember what he said the cause of
the bug was.  I'm not going to worry about it; if I need to go more than
8 levels deep, I'll just use Commodores CD.
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Rodger Anderson (rodger@hpdml93)
              or(rodger%hpdml93@hplabs.hp.com)