Date   : Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:45:18 GMT
From   : munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!werple.apana.org.au!hal9000!monty!bean!nick@uunet.uu.net (Nick Gibbs)
Subject: Re: diseased Kaypro/Wordstar

jfarmer@cs.utk.edu (JOHN FARMER) writes:

> I have a Kaypro 4'84, and I'm using Wordstar 4.0, and I have a problem
> somewhere.  I keep looking part of 'large-files'.  What's happening is that
> parts of files are disappearing only to be replaced with other (duplicate)
> parts of the same file.
> 
> The first times it happened, I was working on a large file on a full disk,
> and I just assumed that when I had tried to save, and there wasn't room, that
> Wordstar got lost when it stopped to tell me there wasn't any room and I had 
> to delete stuff to continue.  The latest time it happened, I was working on
> a much smaller file on a virtually empty disk.  (and to make it worse,
> I was dutifully saving every so often, so there was no backup file to
> get the data from.  I lost about 2-3 hours of work.)

This rings a bell. I remember having trouble with WS4 when editing large
files on a floppy based machine. Especially when inserting a block from
another file. Parts of the file would disappear and other parts get scrambled.

I came to the conclusion that the code just isn't as stable as previous
versions. Unfortunately I can't reproduce this problem using my CP/M
emulator (MYZ80) on the IBM clone, which runs CP/M 3.0. It's as stable as
a rock.

Nick.