Fred,
What version are you describing?
The last "really good" version I used was something like 4.22 or so
(whichever the last subversion of version 4 was). After that, it
went down hill fast.
Dave
"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> > Why would anybody use PC-Tools-anything???? It's dangerous even to have it
> > the car, let alone bringing it inside ...
>
> Don't bring it anywhere near MY car!
>
> Early versions seemed really neat.
> It was great to be able to have half a dozen separate text editing windows
> active. I installed it on the telephone/reception machine at my office.
> I could keep the phone message log active (big file, kept as reference),
> as well as process invoices, inquiries, and a few other tasks.
>
> Then I started to get some disk errors. It would "saw" for a while, but
> then it would continue without a message, therefore indicating [I assumed]
> that it had finally found the sector that it was looking for.
>
> But then one day I had to look up an old entry in the phone
> log. AARRRRGGGGHHH!!!!! There were big chunks missing from the
> file!!!!!
>
> It turns out that PC-Tools was VERY concerned that the DOS critical error
> handler ("Disk read error. Abort? Retry? Ignore?") would mess up their
> pretty displays. So they had hooked the interrupt vector and set it to
> always respond to any error with an "IGNORE"!!!!!!!)
>
> KEEPING THE DISPLAYS PRETTY WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE DATA INTEGRITY!
>
> I could not tolerate such treachery, and removed it.
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
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David C. Jenner
djenner_at_earthlink.net
Received on Tue Jan 01 2002 - 13:58:53 GMT