On Saturday 11 August 2012, Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote: > A file name starting with '@' tells the drive to scratch the file before > opening it. But the implementation has bugs on several drives that may lead > to data loss, so its use is strongly discouraged. noooo - the problem here is that the drive will NOT scratch the file before writing the new one, it tries to allocate more space for it and then fails gloriosly (overwriting other files if you are unlucky). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Sat Aug 11 20:49:52 2012
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