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Does anyone now of a way to force the low-level C write() function to flush
the buffer to the disk?  A call to commit() isn't doing anything.

Details:

Our environment is Windows 3.1 running under MS-DOS 5.0 and we're using
Microsoft C 7.00.  The routine we're trying to write just runs in a DOS
window.  The write() call is embedded in a database package
called CBase, but we do have the source -- that's how I've been able
to experiment with it.  I've been testing by running the process that 
does the writing in a Codeview window and just doing 'type' from another
DOS window.

What we've tried so far:

First, we checked to see if good 'ol stream I/O (fopen, etc.) would
successfully do an fflush().  We finally discovered (no thanks to the
Microsoft support line) , that we needed to call fopen with
the "c" option and bind in commode.obj.  No problem, stream I/O will now
flush properly.  However, when we switch back to cbase, which uses the low-
level routines, we don't see anything written out until we close the file. 
We've tried not running smartdrv and I added a call to commit() to the 
write routine, but no luck.

I had thought that the low-level routines didn't buffer in the first place, 
but it 'pears I was mistaken.

Anybody got any ideas?
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Judy Bettinger  (judy@evolving.com)
Evolving Systems, Inc.
Denver, Colorado