Re: How do I flush disk buffer?

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From: Mike Lempriere
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1992 19:26

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BJ Hargrave (fattire@vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
: In <1fld47INN8fo@hpscit.sc.hp.com> Bruce Kitchin writes:
: >Mike Lempriere (mikel@networx.com) wrote:
: >: What I really want is simply to tell the dang system to flush the cache
: >: to disk for this one file every now and then.  I'd like to just start
: >: a seperate timer thread that just does a flush call every 15 minutes or
: >: so.
: >:
: 
: Just do a DosResetBuffer(DosBufReset for 16bit) on the file
: handle in question. This will update the dir entry as well as flush out
: the file data. Use with DosOpen file handles.
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: BJ Hargrave                     Internet: fattire@vnet.ibm.com
: Boca Raton, FL                  IBMIPNet: bjhar@bjhar.bocaraton.ibm.com

I knew there had to be an easy way!  Thanks a million!

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