OpenEuphoria

Re: Corruption of "EXW.EXE"

• Posted by peter at blonner.com Sep 16, 2003
• 523 views

I had tried the Read-Only flag but it still corrupts the file.  Actually,
the corruption happens when I restart the computer i.e during shutdown or
startup (I'm running XP).
These type of bugs can be difficult to isolate - (I was wrong about it
happening after running Euphoria)

Thanks,
Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Fines" <fines at macalester.edu>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: Corruption of "EXW.EXE"


>
>
> I have botched system files before, when messing around with piping and
> redirecting.  As in "ps -ef > grep whatever" and I overwrite grep.
>
> Maybe something like this is happening to you?  Otherwise no, I've never
> run into what you're describing with exw.exe.
>
> Try flagging the exw.exe read-only and see if it still happens.  If its
> something in your code, maybe you'll get an error when the code tries to
> modify it.
>
> Ted
>
>
> --On Monday, September 15, 2003 4:43 PM +1000 peter at blonner.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Recently I noticed after running Euphoria program  "EXW.EXE" would
become
> > a 240K file (rather than 72K working file).  I keep on having to replace
> > the corrupt file with the original  file.  Has anyone got any idea or
> > experienced anything similar ?  It seems too selective to be a virus.
> > Thanks for any ideas,
> > Peter
> >
> >
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