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- From: /G=Owen/S=Smith/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: Bug alert : RO3.1 corrupts DOS files
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- Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:58:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.102048.24186@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- thughes@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Tom Hughes) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- (Considering write-behind is disabled when accessing image files eg. DOS
- floppies, the explanation given above is not technically accurate.)
-
- You will find that this behaviour is documented in the RISC OS 3.1 release
- notice, and thus it is well known about.
-
- Owen.
-