Dne Fri, 14 Jul 2000 19:07:31 +1000, da Silva, Joe napsal:
> *are* reproducible before reporting them. That's why I didn't report the
> last crash I had with V1.62 - it wiped my FAT's and Root directory
> and no doubt a "few" more sectors besides! I tried in vain to recover
> the drive but in the end I just had to reformat it! I'm sure other people
> would have written something abusive in this situation, but that would
> not have been very constructive, right?
I was trying to analyze this lost clusters problem.... I think it
realy isn't straightforward Arachne's internal bug. Consider this:
1) Every DOS program damages FAT if it crashes without closing files
and/or flushing disk cache (which is on the other hand required to
run Arachne) - maybe those who crash Arachne wery often should consider
running Arachne from RAMdisk, which is natuaraly re-created after any
reboot..
2) Arachne crashes more often then other DOS apps (eg. games, text
editors, image viewers, etc.), because Arachne is being confrointed
with million times more unverified and untested data, which are being
downloaded from websites. There are much, much more possible
combinations situations, which Arachne must face, than in all typical
DOS apps, which usually have to analyze just user input, and simple
data formats like plain text or image files (formats like GIF, JPEG
or BMP are infinitely more simple than HTML, fyi).
3) I think that FAT damage is seldom fatal, if you check filesystem
very often. I suggest you to add chkdsk C: /F, chkdsk D: /F, etc.
for all your drives, to autoexec.bat - this will detect any small
problems after each Arachne crash, before they may become big problems.
4) In 1.66, many problems related to invalid TEMP path, TEMP identical
to CACHE, etc., etc. were fixed.
So my suggestion is: try version 1.66. If safety of your data is
very important for you, run it always from RAMdisk always, otherwise
run chkdsk after each DOS crash, and preferably after each reboot of
DOS.
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