Apple III & Profile

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Wed Aug 12 16:28:31 1998

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, John Foust wrote:

> >As you mentioned, if you put the wrong disk in, it does not give you a way
> >to recover. I know its hard to believe any software could be worse than
> >Windows at error recovery, but Apple Pascal was. I once lost my entire
> >disk of Pascal programs because the OS could not find the right disk. The
> >error message was something like "Volume not found: directory erased".
>
> UCSD Pascal's directory structure is absolutely elementary.
> It's FAT has room for a fixed number of files, and each is stored
> contiguously in logical blocks. If you've still got the disk,
> you can easily recover your files. I'm not sure why it
> would decide to zap the directory structure - are you sure it
> wasn't your fault? :-) There's a volume label, and I thought

This was 10 years ago in high school. I doubt I can get back credit :)

> the OS at least checked this before it assumed the right disk
> was in the drive - unless your program was working at a low
> level, and asked for a specific (#4:, #5:) drive.

It was the OS itself that maimed my files. The OS! I put in the wrong
disk and the OS puked all over it.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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