Date   : Thu, 28 May 1981 13:15:00-EDT
From   : w8sdz@BRL
Subject: Forwarded: BDOS-PAT problems

Date: May 28, 1981
From: Dave Hardy, Sysop, TCBBS Dearborn, Mich.
  To: All CP/M 2.x users
  Re: Directory problems with BDOS-PAT
 
  Just a note about using STAT.COM with BDOS-PAT.ASM
installed.  It seems that if you do a file attribute
set operation with STAT when in a non-zero user area,
STAT will also get any occurance of the name in user 0
too.  To make matters worse, after STAT grabs the file
from user 0, it writes it back with the current user
number.  For example, if you are in user 5 and type: 
STAT *.* $R/O
STAT will also make all the files in user 0 into R/O
and will "move" them into user 5.  This can be very
dangerous if you have 2 files with the same name in
different user areas.  About the only way to recover
from an error like that is to use DU and be VERY
CAREFUL.  This problem also occurs with several other
programs, and also the built-in CP/M commands.