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From:	"Alain" <alainm AT pobox DOT com>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Beware of PTS-DOS
Date:	Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:04:24 -0200
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>Thanks for the warning ...
>However, two things to clarify :
>
>1. Did the 1.2M file have a Control-Z character in it, such that
>    "copy" didn't copy the whole file (this behaviour depends
>    also on the filename extension, of course).

It surely has, it is a zip file. And btw during the copy it
showed that it was making a binary copy...

>2. What do you mean by "Then I tried to unzip this file (one
>    of the damaged programs)"?

Before that, when I tried SYS and SYSFAT32 many files
were destroyed, including the program I wanted to test.
I was restoring that program, which involved copying
the zip file and then unarchiving it.

Alain
>
>Joe.
>
>> After that I discovered that if I copy a big file 1,2Mb from a
diskette
>> it
>> gets corrupted :( after a long time I discovered that this could be
>> fixed
>> with the /V option :(((
>>
>> Then I tried to unzip this file (one of the damaged programs) and
after
>> a few atempts THE WHOLE HARD DRIVE WAS DESTROYED: many
>> files were corrupted and many garbadge directory had aperaded in
>> the root dir. As expected, after scandisk there was nothing useable
>> left anywere. Thanks god it was a test machine!
>>
>> Worse of all, I sent a message to Paragon and one week is passed
>> and I got no answer.
>>
>> Alain
>

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