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#game trashed drive

    04-May-93 18:21:44
Sb: #game trashed drive
Fm: David Paschall 76636,617
To: Michael Gerard 75505,1757
Michael, I just had a long day reformating my hard drive after downloading CHINAC.LZH (games library) and trying to run the program. When I tried to run the program from ram: by clicking on the icon I got the message that couldn't find a "tool". The "tool" was IconX misspelled, so I changed the tool to c:IconX using the information function on workbench. The game didn't run but my system froze and on reboot I got the message that preferences couldn't be found. Well I copied prefs form my 2.0 disk to my hard drive and then things really got interesting. I had directory opus and flipper (the bridge board program) iconified at the time of the freeze. I realize that I may have compounded the problem by my efforts to salvage the hard drive and that the whole problem may have been particular to my system but I felt I should give a "heads up". Anyway I learned a lot today! David