Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UREGINA1.BITNET!GORRIEDE From: GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CygnusEdPro Bug Message-ID: <8910012334.AA10980@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 1 Oct 89 23:24:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 43 >>Sorry if everyone is already aware of this bug. The problem is, that if >>you have two files, with the SAME NAME, in the SAME DIRECTORY, and then try >>to use the CygnusEd file requestor to open a file (get a dir list) THEN >>CygnusEd will promptly hang. >> >> Dennis Gorrie >You also are either running pathhandler/pathman or you have a corrupt disk >since *normally* there isn't any way for this to occur. True it's a bug >but not an outrageous one. If I were you Dennis, I'd back up my disk right >away! > > Chuck McManis comp.sys.amiga@ 9/25/89*CygnusEdPro Bug I am not sure what pathhandler/pathman is. What happened was that I accidentaly erased all the .info files on my dh0: root directory, so I used disksalv to recover them to ram: and then used DiskMaster to move them to dh0:, and that was how I got two .info files. I was able to create files with the same name in a RAM: disk, using diskmaster, not just my hard disk, so I don't think my hard disk is corrupt. ;And just how did you get two files with the same name in the same directory? ;I've had it happen by having a crash while openning a file. The symptom was ;that the file was linked under the wrong hash code. The validator did ;not detect this (thank god) so I could use a disk editor to simply ;zero out the whole directory after copying what I needed out of it. ;(delete #? did not find the file, because ExNext() would return it but ;Delete() would look under the hash to find it.) Try copying .in#? to ;another disk and see if it works and copies both .info files. If not, ;I would call it unfair to call it a "bug" in CygnesEd. -- Darren ; ; new@udel.EDU comp.sys.amiga@ 9/25/89*CygnusEdPro Bug Maybe I should not call it a BUG, but a FEATURE? What ever the cause is for getting two files of the same name, it has happened to me before, using a ram: disk, and I noticed that some file requestors will hang, while others will still work. I am curious as to why some still work and others do not. At any rate, it realy stumped me at first, and I thought I should post it just in case it happens to anyone else using DiskMaster and CygnusED; it could save somebody some grief. As I said in my first posting, I apologize if this is already common knowledge.