rkl@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (01/23/91)
In article <2236@cybaswan.UUCP>, cs9h9tts@cybaswan.UUCP (t.simpson) writes: > > Hi everyone.. I wonder has anyone had the same prob as me.. when running RKL's > vkiller off SCSI HD,,... it crashes saying 'string too long'. never had this > problem with floppies.. any ideas. I assume you're talking about the heavily-flawed V1.10. This WIMP program was written in record time for me and probably posted in far too much of a hurry :-( > Even better, RKL, if you're out there, did you program it to recognise SCSI? V1.20 does, but - ahem - it appears that the version I posted up was a corrupted archive. Unfortunately, I'm slap bang in the middle of coding V2.00 as I speak (copes with ArchieVirus which was recently sent to me), but with my mind distracted on the Gulf War at the moment, it may be the weekend before I get down to some serious VKiller coding. I may be changing the way I check/load a file (claiming RMA instead of DIMming dodgy fixed-sized memory arrays and also making use of OS_GBPB to read from near the end of the file instead of loading the whole thing in). BTW, the SCSI changes I made in V1.20 are, unfortunately, *untested*, but I've derived them from my bdf program, so they should be pretty sound. If people are desperate enough, I can dig out V1.20 and repost it, but I feel it's better waiting another week and being able to cope with a second virus as well... Richard K. Lloyd, *** This is a MicroVAX II running VAX/VMS V5.3-1 *** Computer Science Dept., * JANET : RKL@UK.AC.LIV.CS.AND * Liverpool University, * Internet : RKL%and.cs.liv.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu * Merseyside, England, **************************************************** Great Britain. Q: "What's the world's fastest home micro ?" L69 3BX A: "The Archimedes A3000. 4 MIPS for under 800 pounds."