Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!CZHRZU1A.BITNET!K538915 From: K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: DLII.ARC (and status of DL II and ReOrg) Message-ID: <8707170051.AA10525@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 22:38:28 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8707170051.AA10525 Posted: Thu Jul 16 22:38:28 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 09:06:38 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 64 dgc (whoever that may be) writes: >About bugs in DLII: > >I encountered the following problem, using DLII_024.arc from genie. > >I unpacked the archive into a 800K ramdisk (within a four megabyte 520, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is something I can't check (but I would like to be able to *GRIN*) >so there was no problem with running out of memory), and then ran reorg.prg. >At no time did I tell reorg to actually start doing some reorganization; >I just got to it's "desktop" and immediately exited. Before I ran reorg, >counting the unpacked DLII archive, there was about 500K worth of stuff >in the ramdisk; afterwards there was nothing whatsoever. > Since ReOrg does not write to the disk AT ALL before you explicitly tell it to do so, the loss of the ramdisk contents is not a result of ReOrg making a mistake while writing to disk. > >This would make it seem that DLII/reorg has a major bug that's either >related to ram disks in some strange way, or with disks that have >a 12 bit FAT table. > >dgc > It is surely NOT related to FAT's with 12 bit entries, as this is the same format floppys and all ramdisks I know about use. Possibly your problem was related to one of these: -Not reading the handbook before using ReOrg and not using the diskcheck function of DLII before using it. -Your ramdisk has some special charateristics, which make it incompatible with normal disks. If you can send me a copy of the ramdisk you use, I can try and see if I can find the cause of all this trouble. DL II/ReOrg Status ------------------ People which have actually read the copyright notice on DL II and ReOrg will have noticed that there is NO clause allowing these programs to be duplicated or distributed without my consent. But since the current version (0.24) is in every sense still a beta-test version, I've got nothing against it floating around a bit (it would be impossible to stop anyway). Things that still have to be done before I'll even start thinking about releasing it officially are: -finsh the handbook -cleanup the user interface -get rid of all remaining bugs. Simon Poole K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET PS: Please send bug reports to my address and not to the net, if possible (and I would like to know what the '10 known bugs' are/were)! PPS: How much longer is imminent? PPPS: YAWN! (02.27!)