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?