Date   : Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:51:14 GMT
From   : Christopher Currie <ccurrie@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk>
Subject: Diseased BDOS/Wordstar

I was interested in the post about the lodd off data in Wordstar 4.0
and Don Kirkpatrick's post about the BDOS function 37. Some years ago
I and otherws were using DEC rainbows with WS 3.00 and found that WS would
occasionally lose blocks of text. The files were nowehere near
512 K long. As far as I could discover the text lost was always in a
secondary, non-contiguous extent.

Recently colleagues have been having a similar problem with WS 4.0 on
MS-DOS systems. Text after the first 1K of the file is sometimes lost and
the file is cross-linked with another. So far this has only been
detected on floppy disk directories, not on hard disks.


I know that strictly this is a problem for info-ibmpc, not info-cpm,
but it may be that the CP/M and MS-DOS faults are related. I should
be grateful for any help that can be offered.

Christopher Currie
ccurrie@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk