Re: Bug alert : RO3.1 corrupts DOS files

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From: /G=Owen/S=Smith/O=SJ-Research/AD...
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:58

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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.

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