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A strange problem

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From: Dean C. Gahlon
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 16:44
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This is kind of a peculiar problem I ran into over the past few days, and
I'm curious if anyone can shed some light on it. 

I'm running an A500, 1 meg memory, 2 floppy drives, and have GOMF3.0,
Qmouse, AREXX, and FaccII running in the background.  I'm also using the
PATH: device for access to all the system directories (S:, L:, C:, DEVS:,
LIBS:) telling it to look on df0 then df1 for each type of directory (i.e.,
the C: path tells it to look in df0:c then df1:c).

I had the latest version of DME in the c directory on one of my disks.
Whenever I typed dme in such a way that the PATH: device would cause that
copy to be loaded, the system would instantly GURU. If I specified the path
to that copy explicitly, everything worked fine.  If I loaded a different
copy of that same version of DME, everything worked fine.  I finally
"solved" the problem by renaming that copy to "dme.bad" and copying
dme to that disk again, but I still wonder what's going on here.  It seems
obvious that something strange is going on with the PATH: device, but it
seems odd that it only happened with that one particular disk. 

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them.


					Dean C. Gahlon
					dean@ns.network.com
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