#: 14045 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    23-Jan-92  00:20:51
Sb: #14028-#Lost space
Fm: Ian Hodgson 72177,1762
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)

Kev,

     Now I'm sorry that I reformatted the disk. Had I been more awake at the
time (it _was_ 2AM) I might have dug around a bit with dEd and tried to find
the problem. I'm wondering if, somehow, I ended up with an invisible file. I've
seen that before, with backspaces at the end of the filename in the directory
entry I think. But no, that wouldn't work with an ls -e command. My first
thought was that the sector allocation map was corrupted, but dcheck should
complain long and loud about that. Then I wondered about the free space
reporting of ls (oh, that's lsh which I renamed), but dir and free all showed
the same thing. BTW, free didn't show 1440 free sectors, just 1440 total on the
disk (which is a 3.5" 720K). Oh well, I could speculate endlessly but the info
is long gone so I can't play detective.

     And it's not likely to be Northern lights at this time of year. Crop
circles? Naw, too much (*!"#$$!*) snow. Cold weather, perhaps; the last two
weeks have been down to about -20 at night with a balmy zero in the afternoons.

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