Relative file bugs!!!

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From: Eric Lee Green
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1986 17:12

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At LAST! Finally, I found the relative file bug that's been driving me
batty!

Bug: If you try reading from the error channel right after you did a
relative file write, it corrupts the disk (1541) or blows the
directory track on BOTH drives (8050). It has no effect on the
SFD-1001 (gee, is Commodore aware of this bug, and fixed it?).

Re-create:
  position buffer to record 10, byte 10.
  print your variable
  input from the error channel
  position buffer to record 10, byte 20, etc.

  BOOM!!!! (somewhere in the process, haven't tracked down where).

I am just SOOO sick and tired of fighting relative file "features"! Is
there some book that gives more information about these "features"? No
don't tell me about the manual that comes with drive, I'm not in the
mood for jokes right now...

   Eric Green (Bayou Telecommunications Software ML guru, USL student)

-- 
-- Computing from the Bayous, --
      Eric Green {akgua,ut-sally}!usl!elg
         (Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509)

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Subject: Relative file bugs!!!
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Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 13:12:48 EDT
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