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From: jimb@dopey.AMD.COM (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problem with Diskfit 1.1df
Message-ID: <382@dopey.AMD.COM>
Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 11:32:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: dopey.382
Posted: Thu Jul 23 11:32:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 07:23:17 EDT
References: <1226@aecom.YU.EDU>
Reply-To: jimb@dopey.AMD.COM (Jim Budler)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, Ca.
Lines: 18
Keywords: Crash Large System

In article <1226@aecom.YU.EDU> naftoli@aecom.YU.EDU (Robert N. Berlinger) writes:
} I formatted my Dataframe XP40 and then restored from my Diskfit smartset.
} When I went to reboot, the system crashed (flickering screen).  I booted
} up off of another floppy and found that my System file had grown about
} twice its size (from ~850K to ~1800K).  I copied a fresh System to the disk
} and all was OK (except that I had to put back all my fonts/DAs!).  Anyone
} else hear of this wierd and undesireable behavior?  I haven't called
} Dataframe tech support yet...  I am guessing that the routine to
} "join" files larger than 800K hasn't quite been debugged!

On Compuserve the developer of Diskfit said exactly that: "The newest version
of Diskfit fixes a bug in the join routine". He said he was delivering the new
version to Supermac the next day (~ 1 week ago). He said also that the bug was
in the join operation, not the split, and that old backup sets were still good.

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+      Jim Budler      Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.      (408) 749-5806      +
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