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- From: crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones)
- Subject: Re: Bug alert : RO3.1 corrupts DOS files
- In-Reply-To: steve@klaatu.demon.co.uk (Steve Loft)'s message of 9 Nov 92 10:20:47 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:38:53 GMT
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- In article <721329647snx@klaatu.demon.co.uk>, steve@klaatu.demon.co.uk (Steve Loft) writes:
- >
- > In article <1992Nov9.002405.5422@cs.utwente.nl> kortink@cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink) writes:
- >
- > >Serious RISCOS 3.1 bug alert !
- > [ Long description of 'discovering' a bug in RISC OS 3.1 ]
- > >John Kortink
- >
- > This is documented in the RISC OS 3.10 release note.
-
- Indeed. What's more, even a passing familiarity with the concept of image
- filing systems would lead you to suspect that DOSFS regards the entire surface
- of the disc as an open file - and you KNOW you shouldn't have files open on a
- disc when you reset the machine or remove the disc!
-
- Personally, I regard this as an unexpected optimisation, rather than a bug, but
- then I was using ADFS long before Arthur, and this sort of problem was quite
- common in those days...
-
- --Clive.
-