12 Aug
1998
12 Aug
'98
9:47 a.m.
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, John Foust wrote:
I remember this happening if you were writing to a disk and accidentally
put the wrong one in.
Tony
>As you mentioned, if you put the wrong disk
in, it does
not give you a way
>to recover. I know its hard to believe any
software could
be worse than
>Windows at error recovery, but Apple Pascal
was. I once
lost my entire
>disk of Pascal programs because the OS could
not find the
right disk. The
>error message was something like "Volume
not found:
directory erased".
UCSD Pascal's directory structure is absolutely elementary.
It's FAT has room for a fixed number of files, and each is stored
contiguously in logical blocks. If you've still got the disk,
you can easily recover your files. I'm not sure why it
would decide to zap the directory structure - are you sure it
wasn't your fault? :-) There's a volume label, and I thought
This was 10 years ago in high school. I doubt I can get back
credit :)
the OS at least checked this before it assumed
the right disk
was in the drive - unless your program was working at a low
level, and asked for a specific (#4:, #5:) drive.
It was the OS itself that maimed my files. The OS! I put in
the wrong
disk and the OS puked all over it.
12 Aug
12 Aug
11:19 a.m.
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Dellett, Anthony wrote:
I remember this happening if you were writing to a disk and accidentally
put the wrong one in.
I can't remember the exact circumstances, but I wasn't doing anything
extraordinary at the time. Just swapping disks as the OS told me when I
was trying to load a source file or something silly like that. It was
totally unwarranted. That's why I still remember such a silly thing to
this day. It should be a case study in poor exception handling for
Computer Science 201. That and the scene in the re-make of The Fly with
Jeff Goldblum where the computer defaults to the chamber with the fly that
ends up being merged with Jeff's character because he didn't specify the
destination pod or whatever.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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the OS at least checked this before it assumed the
right disk
was in the drive - unless your program was working at a low
level, and asked for a specific (#4:, #5:) drive.
It was the OS itself that maimed my files. The OS! I put in
the wrong disk and the OS puked all over it.
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