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From: rmariani@watmum.UUCP (Rico Mariani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Weird Bug under 1.2 (Shell 204m Disk Trash'g)
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Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 02:36:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 18 02:36:21 1986
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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