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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 23:33:09 -0200
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

>At 10:11 AM 11/20/2000 -0200, Alain wrote:
>>two coments: (1) it showed a message saying that the copy was being
>>made in binary, (2) this time it was not the FAT that was corrupted,
but
>>the file contents. I checked with FreeDos's COMP and there were a few
>>bytes (first time it was 4 and second time it was 5) that were
changed.
>>I didn't check the FAT after this operation, only after a few more
>
>Have you checked your RAM memory?
>Problems like this could be caused by bad RAM.

The machine is ok, It was running Windows and dos programs
for many years and I just changed the disk for this test. As soon
as I changed back to MsDos 6.22 it is runing ok.

>My favorite RAM tester can be found at
> http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady/memtest86

Thank for this I will have a look. Now I am using AmiDiags 4.52
which I got from a magazine with a full licence!!!

Alain