Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc:121 comp.sys.ibm.pc:9623 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!think!ames!amdahl!littauer From: littauer@amdahl.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PC Aquarium program Summary: Further Investigation Message-ID: <19715@amdahl.amdahl.com> Date: 16 Dec 87 15:53:23 GMT References: <1070@sjuvax.UUCP> <19637@amdahl.amdahl.com> <1078@sjuvax.UUCP> Reply-To: littauer@amdahl.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 28 In article <1078@sjuvax.UUCP> cc743810@sjuvax.UUCP (Chuck Conway) writes: >In article <19637@amdahl.amdahl.com> I wrote: >+ I've just tried the program aquarium and ... it >+ tries to write to disk on termination. > >ARGH! I should have posted a "use at your own risk" clause, but from >personal experience (eg I've run it a zillion times on my 30 meg XT) > >Chuck Conway >(....try and do something nice for people........sheesh) Further investigation points to an interaction with WPHD, a hard disk protection program. I haven't tried with a pure 2-floppy system and won't (since I don't have one :-). Relax, Chuck. It seems to be a nice program, thanks for posting it. When I saw the write error (just before running off to a meeting) I figured better safe than sorry so posted a warning. My apologies to anyone unduly alarmed. Tom -- UUCP: littauer@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ihnp4,ames,uunet,cbosgd}!amdahl!littauer DDD: (408) 737-5056 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 330, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 I'll tell you when I'm giving you the party line. The rest of the time it's my very own ravings (accept no substitutes).