DRW@mit-mc (Dale Worley) (02/23/85)
This software system I've worked on writes long files on the floppies of an IBM PC. Some of our customers, very rarely, discover that large sections of the files have been replaced by many, many blocks containing nothing but the byte 246 (decimal), or (rarely) some other value. I'd suspect the application software (it contains a simple database manager), but it isn't the sort of symptom that I'd expect, given how the code works. Thus, I'm led to expect that the real problem is buried in the guts of IBM Compiled Basic, or MS-DOS, or the hardware of the PC. Has anyone witnessed a similar bug? Thanks, Dale