[arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #241

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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:54:46 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

> Greg:

>> I wasn't aware that SCANDISK could actually repair files, just
>> that it found and flagged broken files, orphan sectors, and so
>> on.

> I think you're right, it's just that sometimes a file is 'broken' only
> insofar as the FAT is corrupted, and scandisk can fix that.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

> Unfortunately it's not QEdit -- I get the bug using Pedit, and
> I've had it using no external editor at all.  What is interesting is
> that sometimes after I rebuild the project after making some change or
> other, the nature of the bug changes.  I used to always see 4 random
> characters, then an '!' and always at the beginning of a line.  Then it
> changed to 5 random characters always ending in a '\' and always at the
> end of a line -- go figure.  I'm almost certain it's a pointer error, and
> it will float to the top sooner or latter.

I should have made it clearer in my original message or in my reply that
the error apparently occurred during the posting to the outbox. It was
not observed prior to the posting while the message was being edited,
but was seen during a scan of the messages in the outbox before
uploading.

When I observed it, I opened the message for [Modify] and added the
extra text.


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  /     \     "Queen City of The South"    34:55 S  138:36 E
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