Re: Problems on a //gs

[johnlb@Primenet.Com (John Bowling)]

In article <4jnn03$g03@nyx10.cs.du.edu>,
Will Baguhn <wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>In article <1996Mar31.122141.1@scvax2.shepherd.wvnet.edu>,
>mArK <sh340001@scvax2.shepherd.wvnet.edu> wrote:
>>Ok... I have a problem...
>>On this //gs I have, there's a directory with a really messed up name...
>>it has some control characters in it I believe, but I can't get rid of it.
>>Every program I've tried just complains about invalid pathname syntax
>>and won't do a thing with it (won't delete either).  Any suggestions?
>>Is there any sort of program out there that will fix messed up catalogs?
>>I tried that program known as Bag of Tricks, but it doesn't support a
>>//gs... the forked files tend to cause havoc it seems... but in any case
>>it doesn't work.
>>
>>-Mark-
>>
>
>I had this happen to me once in a while.  I finally broke down, backed
>up all the files i needed from the drive, reformatted, and copied them
>back on.  it worked.  and since it was a recurrent problem (affiliated with
>MAF (kind of buggy programming language), near as i could tell...), i got
>pretty good at reformatting the disk.
>
When I was having repeated problems one of my programs in Orca/C, I got 
to the point where I would put the executable and all data files on a 
floppy, execute it there, and keep it from screwing up a hard drive.
I even got to the point where I had an EXEC file on the HD with the 
sources that would erase the floppy, write out the new executable and 
data files, and then run it.  I still do that, even though I don't have 
the problem anymore, just because it's so much hell to correct the damage.

John

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