Nicron #39 19 июня 1997

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Soft - description of the program to work with the modem: CDOS1.15 (continued).

            Glitches different needs, different bugs are 
important ... 

Gluck not only contains an absolutely useless program ... "
                (From the laws of Murphy).



                       CDOS 1-15


(C) WLODEK BLACK

"Removing one Gluck leads to the emergence of a new, more
powerful. "
                (From the laws of Murphy).

While, however, this is a normal process of debugging and 
running the new version. Nothing special - each quite large

(Even if only by the value for users, not by volume
code) innovation is fraught with a certain period to identify
trouble. A period that lasts less than one week (on
As at the time of error detection - prim.avt.), so that even
no excuse for ... Okay. So, the next (!) TRIP!:

With 4 drives, I never would have found it "phenomenon." But -
every cloud has a silver lining! - The last session of the 
server in my drive C: middle of the night jammed floppy disk 
(probably from overheating - in room 30 degrees). The result - 
"No Disk"! And as "Application" - a powerful loop program in 
the area: "Disk error -> Reset connection -> Set server mode

-> Alarm History Record - "Restore the current drive
(Same!) -> "No Disk" -> All of the new. "Moreover, the error
occurred in the Quick-mode (in the personal user to be simply
wrote "Drive not present"), and CDOS went roof ...
However, in the personal mode, it would be bad if the subscriber
hung up the phone instead seek another disk.

Well, the glitch as a glitch, and not as seen ... In another
revised 15-second versions of the situation "No Disk" paid to 
an individual attention. Now with such a bummer to be done

appeal to the disk, which seeks an emergency shipment
History, and this disc will be ongoing. Of course, if it is 
technically fails, then the loop can not be avoided. But, let's 
hope not Each session will also break drives or floppy disks 
deteriorate. 

In the unpackaged sector made only one change - the inscription
"VERSION C" changed to "VERSION D". The principal changes
found only in the main block codes. Redefinition
drive for history remained the same as in the previous
version.

Call the next version: "CDOS1-15." With a minus sign. " (This
not a hint).


Yours -
Vladimir Wlodek Black.
16/06/1997.

[To be continued] :-) ;-)