re cview answers in c levt nj rahul net bryanw rahul net bryan woodworth writes in qlobb p a tuegate tue nl renew blade stack urc tue nl rene walter writes most info regarding dangers of reading from floppy disks omitted unrevcoverable way so be careful it is incredibly poor programming for a program to do this nevertheless it is an important bug that needs to be squashed i am merely pointing out that it was probably overlooked while it is serious one must keep in mind that it will probably affect at most of the targeted users of cview ok i don t use cview anymore but i saw that no one had explaind this bug in the thread so here goes it is not the fault of cview it is dos if you leave a file open on a floppy drive then change the disk and do something which updates or closes that file you have a good chance of getting part of the directory and fat from the other disk written to the new disk this has always been true and has destroyed data under other programs not just cview the only thing cview can do to improve the situation is to try not to leave files open unless it s actively using them ie reading and decoding kevin martin sigma rahul net i gotta get me another hat
