>Don't forget we already have one trashcan, that programmed on Qubide 2
>ROMs.
And that one had serious problems mainly due to the way that QDOS and
SMSQ/E handled thing like MOVE. Beware if you are using it. Rich Mellor
knows more about this than I do.
Roy is right - the trashcan built into the QuBide 2 ROMs does not appear at all safe. It appears the problem mainly occurs when a program overwrites an existing file - the trashcan sees the previous one as deleted and tries to store it in the trashcan, but instead seems to grab a pointer to the new file (there is no old one to copy to the trashcan, as overwrite was used instead of delete). As a result, you remove this one from the trashcan and hey presto! your original file either no longer exists or is corrupted!!
As a result, I gave in trying to use the trashcan feature a long time ago.
Rich Mellor
RWAP Software
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TEL: 01977 614299
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