jrb@amadeus.TEK.COM (Jim Binkley) (03/02/88)
If K. B. is reading this. Hi! I would like to thank the party responsible for posting "levee" to the net. I would like to encourage the fellow who redid "stevie" round 2, to repost the src to the net or send me a copy. Por favor. I missed it last time and I can't find it anywhere. Now to change the subject: I noticed last night that the following inadvertant finger-goof command adminstered from the Mark Williams shell on my atari caused a great deal of havoc on my Mark Williams created ram disk: mwsh> cp foofile e:\\ The first time I tried it, it "seemingly" wiped out the hard disk. I ran "tuneup" on the disk and tuneup did indeed find damage and repair same. I then tried it again and tried it on a floppy disk that I no longer loved (and studiously avoided trying it on the hard disk...). This time no apparent damage occured. All that happened was that I got a file named "\". Now this made the Mark Williams shell very unhappy. The desktop showed the file as "noname" but showed. mwsh> rm e:\\ worked. Curious. Now of course I tried it on my pc-xt since of course we know that tos and dos "have the same file system". All dos incantations refused to permit "\\" as a filename. Good for dos. Bad for tos. And here I thought that dealing with the root directory on msdos was strange. Wrong. This is another reason why K.B. is no longer using her s.t. :->... jim binkley jrb@amadeus.tek.com It's raining in Oregon.