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Chris Kennington - newshound (Newz@inf-eden.nospam.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <01bd6bc9$7e7d95c0$0100b51f@dbqa.demon.co.uk>
:            hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk "Tom Bird" writes:

: "> "Be careful with Interserve and Interlink !!!
  [big snip]
:     This post is potentially very interesting; could we have some
:  chapter and verse?  I am particularly interested to know about
:  situations in which Interxxx could cause damage; and in the way
:  in which it fails to work in other situations.

  I encountered a scrambled disk when using INTERxxx. I was running IBM
DOS 5 on both machines, but using the INTERxxx files from PC-DOS 6.22.
There was no trouble on the INTERLNK end (the device driver), when
receiving files.  But I also sent files over to the server (INTERSVR) 
machine, and probably erased some too, with the result a scrambled disk. 
Fortunately it was a RAM drive, not my real hard disk. 

  As you may understand, I'm reluctant to do much experimentation as a
scrambled HD is not much fun, so I have not tried to run down exactly what
determines whether it will malfunction. 

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 -- Jim Van Nuland, San Jose (California) Astronomical Association