RE: Deleting save files-a basic question

[Neil Palmer <NeilP@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, in that case you weren't actually just deleting it.  I've had that 
situation occur a couple of times where the PTF is marked as damaged, and the 
only solution I have seen is that you must redo the LODPTF command first, 
before you can do either APYPTF or RMVPTF.  On the occasions where this has 
happened to me I was able to recover by doing a LODPTF again from the savefile 
I already had downloaded, so it appears it wasn't a case of a corrupted 
savefile that needed to be replaced, but a case of something screwing up when 
the original LODPTF command was issued.



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-----Original Message-----
From:   Pete Hall [SMTP:peteh@inwave.com]
Sent:   Tuesday, December 01, 1998 11:18 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        RE: Deleting save files-a basic question

At 22:53 11/30/1998 , Neil Palmer wrote:
>Erm - is that right ?
>You can remove it whether or not you have the save file, it's just that if 
>you change your mind you can't load it again unless you have the save file.

Well, I know for sure that there are some circumstances where you cannot remove 
a ptf if the save file isn't present. I had to sit for 2 hrs one night a year 
or so back while I re-downloaded a PTF just so I could get rid of the blasted 
thing. As I recall, the ptf was loaded and damaged, but not applied.

Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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