Message-ID: <67BAFB085CD7D21190B80090273F74A45B7D61@emwatent02.meters.com.au>
From: "Da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>,
        FreeDos List
	 <fd-dev AT topica DOT com>
Subject: RE: Beware of PTS-DOS
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:02:05 +1100
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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).

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

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alain [SMTP:alainm AT pobox DOT com]
> Sent:	Monday, 20 November 2000 9:58
> To:	FreeDos List; opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	Beware of PTS-DOS
> 
	----- snip -----

> 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