hofmeist@cantor.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Thomas Hofmeister) (12/11/90)
I know a company which has strange problems under Novell: They get lots of zeroes (=ASCII 48) into their ASCII-files where they don't belong. In fact, in some files, one in 500 bytes gets corrupted in such a way that bit number 4 gets set to 1. (So the 48 comes from 32 +16). Might this be that there's something wrong with the installation or is this phenomenon already known as a virus? Excuse if this has been discussed on this group before, but I'm new here. - ---------------- Thomas Hofmeister, hofmeist@cantor.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
C.Owen@qut.edu.au (12/13/90)
<hofmeist@cantor.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> (Thomas Hofmeister) writes: >I know a company which has strange problems under Novell: >They get lots of zeroes (=ASCII 48) into their ASCII-files where they >don't belong. In fact, in some files, one in 500 bytes gets corrupted in >such a way that bit number 4 gets set to 1. (So the 48 comes from >32 +16). >Might this be that there's something wrong with the >installation or is this phenomenon already known as a virus? >Excuse if this has been discussed on this group before, but >I'm new here. I don't know about the zero's, but the problem with bits sounds like hardware. We had a similar problem due to a flaky RAM chip in the Ethernet card. It only occurred when writing to the network, and disappeared when the CPU clock speed was dropped 12MHz->6MHz. Chris Owen | c_owen@qut.edu.au Computer Based Education | voice +61 7 223 2912 Queensland University of Technology | FAX +61 7 229 0874 Brisbane, Australia