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Article #348Re: Bug alert : RO3.1 corrupts DOS files
From: Simon Burrows
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:34
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:34
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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. It was discussed on here as well. It's interesting how Archive always gets the credit for these things! >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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simon Burrows smb@cs.nott.ac.uk psyhsmb@unicorn.nott.ac.uk +44 533 712030 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!nott-cs!smb 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 Lines: 26