🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <DAVEG.90S...@near.cs.caltech.edu>,
da...@near.cs.caltech.edu (Dave Gillespie) writes:
|> How many times have we all warned beginning programmers to cross their
|> t's and dot their i's:  "Store through an uninitialized pointer, and
|> the computer could do anything---it could even run amok and delete all
|> your files!"

Here's mine:

I was working on a Pascal program on a PC, with lots of pointers here
and there.  I was running the program to test some new functions, but
of course it didn't work right the first time.  But at least it exited
cleanly.

Or so I thought.  About an hour later, I was copying some large files
over to diskette, and was puzzled by the speed of copying.  So I
decided to check before I deleted the files on the hard disk.

It turned out that every time I had copied a file for the last hour,
the copy was created with a length of 0 bytes....

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Bj|rn Munch                  | Div. of Comp. Science & Telematics,
bjo...@idt.unit.no          | Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH),
PhD Student (well, soon...)  | Trondheim, Norway