Re: Scrambled Files

[Ed Cray cray@xxxxxxxx]

WooF:

DOS 5.1 was a bit less stable than 6.1. Either switch to that, or use an
old (ca. 1987) Ziff-Davis utility named Dircomp, which infallibly copies
files from disc a to disc b, or c to a, or whatever.

Ed

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, WooF wrote:

> O XyWrite eXperts:
>
> I have a recurring probl,e. I use XyWrite 3.57 almost entirely
> for writing and editing text. Being cautious, I save everything
> on two removable disks. Every so often, I find that the contents
> of one disk get scrambled -- that is, when I call a file by its
> proper file name, I get not that file, but a chunk of some other
> file.
>
> Briefly: I call a text file from one of the floppy disks. I work
> on thatt file, saving to that floppy from time to time. When
> done, I give the command "sa b:" (rather than just "sa". (Without
> the quote marks, of course.) Program replies that the file exists
> and do I want to overwrite. I tell the program "y" and it saves.
> Then I swap disks and go through that procedure again. Usually,
> this works; sometimes, it scrambles the contents of that disk.
>
> Any suggestions? (I'm on a dos machine with DOS 5.1.)
>
> George Scithers of owlswick@xxxxxxxx
>