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From: GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CygnusEdPro Bug
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Date: 1 Oct 89 23:24:00 GMT
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>>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.