On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:21:26AM -0000, Tree Tyree N6TR wrote:
>
> > The PC crashed like six more times in the contest, five of which were of
> > the
> > "spontaneous reboot" variety. One of them was a lock-up. That time, the
> > call window said:
> >
> > K5LLL !@+%&\*(
>
> The ( indicates that the program is about to do the floppy save feature.
> The ) character would appear if the save was done successfully.
I think that must have been what it was. I had FLOPPY FILE SAVE FREQUENCY = 5.
I don't know why, really - I think that's inherited from LOGCFG.DAT files
from years past - I didn't actually have a floppy in the drive, and haven't
done that for several years.
> I believe you said you were using 6.42.
>
> Here is an excerpt from the 6.43 release notes:
>
> - Fixed floppy save crashing. Under certain amounts of available memory,
> an amount of memory exceeding the amount available was attempted to be
> secured. This resulted in an IO error, which would result in either a
> program crash or strange behavior.
Aha!
I'd never seen the problem before 6.42, and hadn't remembered to upgrade before
the contest. It was unfortunate.
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