1. Please don't SUE me, I'm only asking
- Posted by Terry Moriarty <terry at EDERNEY.IDPS.CO.UK>
May 30, 1999
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Last edited May 31, 1999
I've just, yet again, spent the past few hours repairing my disk
partition table and boot sector.
These have been trashed several times in the past few months. The only
common factor that I can be sure of, is that before turning of the
computer each time I had been writing and running *Euphoria* progs. I've
been involved in several other projects for about 6 weeks, still using
computer, and had no time for programming and also no bother. I started
back into Eu about a week ago and, here we go again.
I'm not saying that Eu is the problem, it could be something I am doing
wrong while using it.
Has anybody else come across this. If you have and can tell me where I
am going wrong I'd love to know.
BTW none of the antivirus progs. I use notice that the boot sector is
being trashed.
All the best
Terry
2. Re: Please don't SUE me, I'm only asking
Did you get your copy of Euphoria from Euphoria Web Page?
What programs were you trying to run. Was it a program that you wrote
I think you may have a hard drive that is going bad so you had better
back it up. I don't see how Euphoria could effect your hard drive
unless you are writing programs that effect the hardware. Also you could
have a CMOS battery that is going bad.
Bernie
3. Re: Please don't SUE me, I'm only asking
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET>
May 30, 1999
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Last edited May 31, 1999
Terry Moriarty writes:
> I've just, yet again, spent the past few hours repairing my disk
> partition table and boot sector.
I don't know of anything in ex.exe or exw.exe that could
cause this sort of thing. Of course, if a specific program
starts poking into strange locations in memory, anything
might be possible.
In version 2.1, you can run sanity.ex in the euphoria\demo
directory. It will tell you if your Euphoria executables have
been infected with a virus, or corrupted in some way.
We have a Win95 machine here that has been used to run
all of the Euphoria programs on the Web site (almost 400
programs, written by many different people), plus all of our
own RDS programs. It has never
had any file system problem that couldn't be fixed by scandisk.
I always run scandisk soon after any program (written in
Euphoria or not) has a severe crash.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/
4. Re: Please don't SUE me, I'm only asking
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Terry Moriarty wrote:
>
> Has anybody else come across this. If you have and can tell me where I
> am going wrong I'd love to know.
>
> BTW none of the antivirus progs. I use notice that the boot sector is
> being trashed.
>
That should be a clue: if they're good anti-virus, they will intercept
any attempt to write to the boot sectors.
If they don't see anything happening, then they are either very poor
software, or (much more likely) there is some hardware failure going
on. It's not so much something writing bad data to the boot record,
as it is the machine failing to be able to read what is there.
I'd look for the usual loose cables, etc, then check out another
disk drive.
I don't think Euphoria will trash anything except files your
program opens, when you have gotten into some endless loop
and have to bail out. I've been doing some heavy programming and
database work with Euphoria for several months with no problem.
Regards,
Irv Mullins
