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Re: The mystical save-@ bug [message #83288] Mon, 10 June 2013 21:28
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Originally posted by: lenoil@mit-eddie.UUCP (Robert Scott Lenoil)
Message-ID: <3356@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Dec-84 13:52:15 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.3356
Posted: Sat Dec 22 13:52:15 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 08:34:57 EST
References: <1703@zehntel.UUCP> <11415@gatech.UUCP>
Reply-To: lenoil@mit-eddie.UUCP (Robert Scott Lenoil)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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When you want to save a file to disk under an existing filename,
you are SUPPOSED to be able to type SAVE "@0:name",8.  However,
since the first Commodore's walked the earth, an obscure DOS bug
that Commodore has never publicly admitted to sometimes comes
to life to wreak havoc with your disk.  Therefore, us wary ones
refrain from writing files with the @filename option, but instead
scratch the old file, and then write the new.  Be forewarned,
lest you be bitten by the bug that walks the mirrored hallways of
your 1541, when the moon is full and the wind fierce and howling...

Robert Lenoil
USENET: {ihnp4, decvax!genrad, harvard}!mit-eddie!lenoil
ARPA: lenoil@mit-xx.arpa
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