marria@polya.Stanford.EDU (Michael R. Marria) (06/17/88)
A lot of disk space is disappearing on me lately. First I thought a dreaded disease had struck my system, but I think not. Lately, I have been doing three new things. a)using the 5 1/4" 1.2 meg mitsubishi on the 8" controller b)using masm, debug and link a lot c)using Freemacs The problem shows up going on somewhere between editing assembling and linking, then (exiting) to the editor again. I'm still not sure when it happens, but suddenly, in the midst of these actions, two to three hundred kbytes are suddenly lost to my disk. CHKDSK always fixes this. Sometimes, for no apparent reason the assembler quits in the middle of a pass, wedging the computer as well. Any ideas? MSDOS 3.1, link and debug, masm ver 1.07 ala ZDOS 1(?) Freemacs ver1.5 beta (recently posted to simtel) Michael PS> No word from Lance Towns
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (06/18/88)
In article <3066@polya.Stanford.EDU> marria@polya.Stanford.EDU (Michael R. Marria) writes: > A lot of disk space is disappearing on me lately. > > I'm using MASM (Z-DOS version) I could believe that the assembler's quitting in the middle of a pass could be the cause of your problems. As far as I'm concerned, your assembler is broken. I used that *thing* for years until I got a chance to upgrade to MASM 4.0. Now I'm using 5.0 and am happier yet. I suggest that you switch to either MASM or A86. Either one should do the trick. A86 is much, much faster, but accepts slightly different syntax. -russ -- Despise Ronald Reagan now--avoid the rush.