judd@cs.colorado.edu (JUDD STEPHEN L) (04/29/91)
Comment the first: I have not read news since before Christmas. I assume that these are the appropriate newsgroups to post to, but if not, a kindly remark would be preferable to a flame. Relevance to csa.misc: This morning I was working on a program with Benchmark Modula-2 (someone REALLY still uses that?) and when I saved the file: ZAP, task held, reset the computer please. So, I reboot, thinking that at worst I get a validation error. I didn't even get that, but what I did get was an empty file. I know the file still exists in hard-drive limbo (a fragment is at Block 67672, as a matter of fact). So, the question is, of course, how may I recover this file? I would REALLY like to get it back... Relevance to csa.programmer: Problem the first: I have NEVER had a problem with Benchmark M2 until this program. The program causes the compiler to crash, the linker to crash, and now apparently the editor to crash (the error is usually something like an unimplemented opcode). Often I can get weird graphics garbage to come up on the workbench screen. The only thing out of the ordinary that the program does is to set up about seven 1-D and 2-D arrays and play around with them. Comments? Problem the second: Is there a bug in WriteReal()? I can consistently crash my program by inserting this procedure in the code. This is a drag. That's all. Since I doubt I'll be reading news very often, email would be preferable. -Steve -- judd@tramp.colorado.edu // YOU BE THE JUDGE: Should scientists be allowed ...!ncar!boulder!tramp!judd \X/ to ignore moral and ethical standards in their attempts at playing God and reviving the dead, or should this project be canceled once and for all? Send your thoughts to: You Be the Judge, Weekly World News, 600 S.E. Coast Ave., Lantana, Fla. 33462. --