PSYMCCAB@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Bob McCabe) (02/04/90)
I am having some system problems that may be caused by the program
Fractint, version 11 which I downloaded from the SIMTEL archives. As
these system errors have not occured when running any other programs
on my system I thought I would post them here in order to see if anyone
else using the program has encountered them.
Specificaly, I have got them message 'File Allocation table bad, drive c:'
after leaving the program. I have rebooted and analyised my disk with
every tools I have and not found any errors (I also checked for virus
infection). I assume that the program is corrupting DOS somehow and wiping
out the internal reference to the FAT. Aside from giving me heart stoppage,
there appears to be no damage to the system, but I don't know what part of
the program caused this (I not sure I want to try!).
Another problem I had earlyier related to the use of the command line
option FLOAT=TRUE. This worked fine the first time I invoked the program
however on subsequent tries I got the error message 'Floating point not
loaded'. After powering down my system for the night I was able to run
the program fine the next day. Again, I'm not sure which fractal type
caused the error as I had tried several.
If anyone else has the program and encounters these errors please let
me know and I'll try to get in touch with one of the authors to see
if they know about them.
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INET : PSYMCCAB@VM.UOGUELPH.CA Bob McCabe
CoSy : bmccabe Psycholgy Dept.,
Phone : (519) 821-8982 University of Guelph
Guelph, Ont. Canada
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