jcmorris@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Joseph C. Morris) (08/11/88)
In article <3606@bsu-cs.UUCP> ncsugn!emigh@mcnc.mcnc.org (Ted H. Emigh) writes: > > FILECRC is a program to help detect when files have been >corrupted. FILECRC creates a list of all the files on the [mucho deleted including the uuencoded binary] There's something in this code (possibly from T-Pascal routines) which is clobbering the display. Running on either an old PC-1 with an IBM ega or an AT with a Vega board, I get a green screen with severe sync problems. On a PS2/50 I get a low-contrast black on gray; on a Compaq 386 I get normal operation. On all but the Compaq the program exhibits uncivilized behavior by leaving the screen in mode 7; for some reason on the Compaq it properly leaves the screen as it found it in mode 3. The garbaged screen made me immediately suspect a trojan, but it is instead apparently just an interface problem. The program is one I need, but I also need to be able to run it without losing the screen. Any suggestions? (BTW: once the program finishes, the screen can be restored to normal operation by blindly issuing the MODE CO80 command and hoping it's in the search path.)