wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (01/29/88)
I ran into a problem with FLUSHOT2 which, in my opinion, makes it
unusable on my system.
I have a Taiwanese "turbo" XT clone (8-MHz NEC V-20 processor chip, two
360K 5-1/4" floppies, 30-meg hard disk). I just recently upgraded the
software to MS-DOS 3.3 ("vanilla Microsoft" MS-DOS with no OEM mods).
I installed FLUSHOT2. Some time later, I formatted some floppies. As
FORMAT tried to write the initial "empty root directory" stuff to the
floppy after it had initialized the surface, I got a total of *eight*
warnings from FLUSHOT2. I replied "yes" to all eight warnings, so I was
able to finish the format.
I then compared the COMMAND.COM on my hard disk with the COMMAND.COM
from the original MS-DOS 3.3 distribution -- and they were identical.
So, apparently FLUSHOT2 got confused by the way FORMAT was formatting my
floppies.
In case it makes any difference, this was *NOT* a FORMAT/S -- just a
plain FORMAT. Again, I am using a "vanilla" MS-DOS 3.3, straight out of
the shrink-wrapped Microsoft box, with *no* third-party-vendor mods.
Has anyone else seen (or *not* seen) this behavior? As for me, I con-
cluded that the "cure" was worse than the "disease", and am no longer
using FLUSHOT2.
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