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- From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
- Subject: Re: Bug alert : RO3.1 corrupts DOS files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.223423.13524@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Organization: Nottingham University
- References: <1992Nov9.002405.5422@cs.utwente.nl> <1992Nov9.102048.24186@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 22:34:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.102048.24186@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> thughes@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Tom Hughes) writes:
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- >I'm fairly sure that this is well known, as I read somewher recently
- >(in Archive I think) that you should *always* dismount a DOS floppy
- >before ejecting it, as not doing so means that the write behind buffer
- >will not be flushed to disc, so the last sector or so written to disc
- >will not actually have been written.
-
- It was discussed on here as well. It's interesting how Archive always gets
- the credit for these things!
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- >Whether this is a bug or the way things were supposed to work, it is
- >*very* bad. If this was in the specification, I worry about the person
- >who wrote the spec... Please, please, please sort it out Acorn.
-
- I'm sure the RISC OS Development team members would agree with you.
- It will most likely have been sorted out unless management decided that
- the programmers have better things to do.
-
- Simon
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