On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Clarence Verge wrote:
> More regarding A1.65:
>
> I said I lost my Netscape Bookmarks ? (D: drive)
> I also found 31 lost clusters on exit. (C: drive)
>
> Nothing decipherable in them.
I dont know if it has something to do with new Arachne... I was also
experiencing some lost clusters before releasing, but I was rather
thinking of virous (this is not real problem, as all files in package
are either identical to previous packages, or fresh-compiled, never
executed before packing and uploading) (well, of course I execute the
binaries before uploading, but when doing release, I am packing them
wihtout executing, mainly to prevent possible viral infection...)
You can scan latest package for viruses if you want... otherwise, lost
clusters may be related to Arachne crashing WHILE accessing certain file.
They definitely shouldnt appear Arachne starts, runs normaly, and then
terminates. If you can detect such behaviour, than something is wrong.
I always took L.D.Bests lost clusters reports seriously, because I am
experiencing them too, and mainly on drives, which are running Arachne.
It can be related to certain corrupted data downloaded from net, which
result in overwriting system memory, and it may be related to visiting
pages which are known to crash Arachne - during the nasty >>Cannot load
COMMAND.COM<< crashes, almost anthing can happen, and you should run ndd
after such crashes...
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