Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!allegra!mit-eddie!lenoil From: lenoil@mit-eddie.UUCP (Robert Scott Lenoil) Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Subject: Re: The mystical save-@ bug 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 Lines: 13 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