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I have a newly made ARCAOS system.

My previous system was ECS22 beta, presumably using version 913 (2008) and no ill symptoms.

I dont know which release is part of ARCAOS but I found that obeying a CMD file from a FAT32 formatted disk could cause the contents that file to vanish (not the file iteslf). There appeared to be other corruption associated with that problem.

Not unreasonably LEwis Rosenthal recommended that I try R249, which I installed using the WPI version.

The above problem did not occur. However running a DOS in a full screen window (which I need to do for other reasons) and obeying a BAT command (calling word perfect) all seemed well until I exited word perfect when the systen froze.

On the forced reboot the partition showed lots of errors to the extent that it said "use SCANDISC under Windows".

Reverting to the "stable release" 913 these problems do not occur.

I arranged for full backup of the partitions that are vulnerable and tried again, with very similar results so the effect is repeatable.

I dont know what diagnostics would help.

Since experiencing the stuck state (as I thought on ArcaOS) I have experimented with both CS and ARCAOS. The stuck states occur on both systems in all releases later than 913.

I now have a file on a FAT32 formatted volume that causes a stuck state on either system when attempting to delete it (DEL comand) in a DOS window. This effect is (so far) 100% consistent and oersisted despite remaking the volume by copying the files and directories.

Please let me know what diagnostic information would be useful.

This ticket is included for completness

IN #45 lewisr refers to "a user of Arcaos" having a problem and leaving it to him to report. I am that user and I did not report it because lewisr said it was fixed in v249.

I installed the then layest version and have indeed not seen the "vanishing contents problem" but instead hit problem #46

When obeying some CMD files instead of the CMD being obeyed the content of the file is cleared instead.

So far as I can see this only affects files on a FAT32 formatted partition.

It does not happen for all files but for those it does it is 100% consistent.

This is not an effect I have ever seen before and I wonder if it could possibly be a FAT32 bug. Steps To Reproduce (on my system!) Boot ARCAOS 5.0

Open an OS2 command window type "ex" (not quotes)

The ex.cmd contains just exit so this should cause the window to exit. Instead it returns to the prompt, and looking at the file (type cmd\ex.cmd) shows the contents have gone.