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Number   :  6545
Date     :  2003-12-18
Author   :  Dan Anderson
Subject  :  Re: Open question regarding XXclone operation???
Size(KB) :  3



Jim, Garry and Kan. My comments were in the context that I had not seen
email on that apparent xxclone bug prior to Dec 15 (somewhat reinforced by
Pat's reference to it as an open question posted to the group and Garry's
comment that Kan was already aware of it). If I missed an earlier posting
where this was addressed, my apologies although I was really just asking for
clarification regarding my impression of Garry's comment. Jim, your
selective quotes of my comments were I think changing them from questions to
statements which was not the content of my comments.

As yourself and others, I have sometime made initial comments to Kan offline
and don't consider that a problem (nor would I characterize them as secret
discussions). If there were known bugs I was just encouraging that they be
identified even if xxclone has beta status. Jim, I think you're just saying
that your understanding is that any material known problems have been
communicated to the Beta user group.

Regards,

Dan

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----- Original Message -----
From: J. Merrill 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [xxcopy] Re: Open question regarding XXclone operation???

I don't think there's been anything "off-line" here. Pat has written about
this issue a number of times. Most of the responses were "just fix it and
move on", but IIRC Kan did at one point acknowledge that there might be a
bug.

I don't know where you get the idea that any "potential bugs" were not
"communicated to the email group" or that "there are other known problems
that the group was not yet aware of." (Every piece of software has
"potential bugs"!) With word of the usefulness of XXCopy and XXClone
spreading, the traffic on the group has increased, so it's hard to keep up
with everything -- but I'm not aware that anyone in this group is involved
with "secret discussions."

(I even sent a private message reporting an error in the wording of some
XXCopy output, thinking that Kan could just fix it and no one would notice
[as they'd never noticed that it was wrong]. Kan replied to the whole
group, so even though I had thought it'd be easier to keep it private,
that's not Kan's way.)



J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp

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----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Anderson 
To: 
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [xxcopy] Re: Open question regarding XXclone operation???


Was this bug with XXCLONE previously identified in the email group? I don't
recall seeing an earlier email.

Could you please elaborate on what circumstances result in some files
becoming hidden files.

If bugs are identified off-line is there an immediate communication to the
email group?

I have been using XXCLONE to make a backup copy and then in some cases (e.g.
a software installation messing up) discarding the original and proceeding
with the xxclone version? Are there other known bugs where the cloned copy
is not identical to the original??

If so, it would be helpful to maybe see a list to see what surprises might
be down the road in relying on the xxcloned copy.


Thanks,

Dan



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