On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Herb Peyerl wrote:

> I realize this is probably not 'current' any more but I thought I'd
> mention it in case someone else is seeing this...
>
> I have an IBM Thinkpad T-21 running 1.6ZK.  I was in a coffee shop
> working on some code with 'vi', on battery power with apmd running.  No
> network or anything else.
>
> After about an hour of editing, I discovered that the files I had
> modified and written to disk were corrupted.  There were random
> characters appended to each line of the first 1-2K of each file.  One
> file, an include file, contained about 1K of code from another file, a
> .c file.
>
> It turned out to be somewhat sub-optimal but I was able to recover by
> doing a visual 'diff'.
>
> Anyone else seen that? Or is this an old and well-known issue and I
> just missed it?

Maybe this?

  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2004/05/02/0016.html


Frederick