Warning! Possibly nasty 2.0/Beta 5 bug!

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From: R. Michael Smithwick -- FSN
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 1990 15:57

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This may be a bit late, or it may have been reported already since I had
my USENET access brutally cut off for a month. But anyway.. . .

There seems to be a problem with QuarterBack and Beta 5 of 2.0. After
installing the new release (which wipes out everything), then restoring 
my own files, I noticed a whole bunch were
munged. The restored copy of Quarterback itself had an extra block
of garbage pre-pended to it, and another file (Diskmaster) had 5 
extra blocks interleaved with it. Hey, I'm for integration like most
people, but NOT ON MY HARDDISK! 

The files on the backup disks were clean, and I was able to extract them
one-by-one successfully. I called this in the CCS and it was the first
time they had heard of it. So far I haven't heard anything back from
them.

So has anyone else had this problem? This was on a 3000.

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Subject: Warning! Possibly nasty 2.0/Beta 5 bug!
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