Msg: 6983 *Conference*

03-22-97 12:24:13

From: COMET _

To : CLEUSEAU

Subj: PROBLEM REPORT

I lost all my work.  :(  I had been working in TEXT, on my Model 100, using the
Cleuseau ROM [Programmer's Edition], entering text in LABEL.DO to define
symbolic addresses for all the system ROM routines given in the books "Inside
the Model 100" and "Hidden Powers of the TRS-80 Model 100" and also the
Covington memory maps.  [I started with the public routines defined in the
Model 100 Service manual.]  I had finished all the books and over half of the
Covington map, when I did a forward search on the word "RUN", checking to see
if I had already defined this label.  I was alarmed when the search did not
complete in the time I expected, so I powered off the computer and back on.
Nothing.  Blank screen!  Powered off and on again, and was happy to see my file
directory.  Openning LABEL.DO showed me the file was trashed--the first part
was filled with ^@.  :(  The other files were also no good; I had created small
text files for the Address and Schedule programs, and had one small program in
BASIC (unsaved) and one small BASIC program saved.  I had the output file from
a previously parsed LABEL.DO.  And so I did a cold start.  *sigh*
 
I was being so careful, too--I hadn't done ANY pokes (apart from enabling
Cleuseau) and I had run not a single .CO file, nor had I used the TELCOME
program.
 
I think there may be a bug in Cleuseau's TEXT enhancements (or in the original
TEXT) that affects only large files; after the cold start I made a small text
file and searched for RUN, but didn't get any problems.
 
Has anybody else noticed any undocumented TEXT behaviour, either with or
without the Cleuseau enhancements?