Date   : Wed, 06 Jan 1993 18:02:55 GMT
From   : swrinde!emory!cs.utk.edu!jfarmer@gatech.edu (JOHN FARMER)
Subject: diseased Kaypro/Wordstar

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.)

My husband thinks it's a disk drive problem.  I'm not so sure.  I don't 
seem to have the problem with pip, for instance.  Any suggestions?  Ideas?
I do re-build Wordstar ever so often.  I use it all the time, and the disk
"goes bad" every so often.

All help appreciated.

Thanks
Susan

  

-- 
Susan B. Farmer     farmer@cs.utk.edu     Lady Jerusha Kilgore     
I can't even find time to clean house and you want me to come up with a .sig?
     And now she wants to go back to grad school after 14 years .....  
     We'll let her out when the delusion passes.