Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!watmath!watnot!watmum!rmariani From: rmariani@watmum.UUCP (Rico Mariani) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Weird Bug under 1.2 (Shell 204m Disk Trash'g) Message-ID: <743@watmum.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 02:36:21 EST Article-I.D.: watmum.743 Posted: Thu Dec 18 02:36:21 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 21:53:30 EST References: <6977@decwrl.DEC.COM> Reply-To: rmariani@watmum.UUCP (Rico Mariani) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 43 In article <6977@decwrl.DEC.COM> drew@cgfsv1.dec.com (Steve Drew) writes: > >I've found what appears to be a very bizarre bug under 1.2, that >cause's disk's to get trashed. After writing the commandline editing code >for shell and using it and 1.2 for a couple of months I kept getting the >odd disk go bad. Seem'd to usually be when doing a makedir or a copy >or creating a new file. We'll I happend to pick up a 5 1/4" transformer >drive this weekend and the problem was even worse on it, in fact I >could easily reproduce it.... I'm glad I'm not the only one who had this problem. I thought I was losing my marbles or something. So far I've been "lucky", all the hits have been on my root block which (thanks to DiskSalv or DiskDoctor) are 100% harmless (pheww!). There is one other problem that I've noticed though, I don't know if I can blame the shell or not. Try this sequence of commands in some scratch direcotory on any disk (or ram:) % dir % rm *.o % dir The second dir produces NO OUTPUT! Yipe! But all is not lost, if you cd back to where you think you should be % cd $_cwd % dir things are really OK after all, nothing drastic has happened. While I'm talking about this new shell, Steve can you give me a faster way to move along a command line that I'm editing somehow (like say shift cursor keys to move to the start and end of line or something). It's really painful when you type ce df1:this/that/the/other/thing/too/why/not/even/this/ok and then you realize "gadzooks, I blew it waaaaay back in column 2". But all in all, I really love this new shell (except for the disk trashing) Good work! Could you post the code that passes the ^C signal along? I'm not sure how to do this... -Rico