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David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:

>In article <jmk3.724051026@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> jmk3@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell) writes:
>> >the loader is supposed to have a check which will force a reload from disk if
>> >the disk file is newer than the cached copy.

>Which 'loader' do you mean?  The ORCA 'FastFile' system does check the
>date/time of the file, so if you copy a new version of an EXE file
>into the ORCA utilities directory, it will be loaded instead of the
>in-memory version.

The ORCA fastfile system doesn't have anything to do with loading programs.
Isn't the fastfile system supported in GNO for compatibility with ORCA only?

>> If you mean the System Loader, I don't think it does. I've heard of people
>> having problems debugging because they made their app restartable and instead
>> of the loading the latest version, they would accidentally just restart the old
>> one from memory. Thus: while developing, keep your apps non-restartable.

>Agreed.  I just checked the System Loader chapter of the GS/OS
>reference, and can't see anything about the Restart function checking
>if the file on disk is newer than the one in memory.

Same here. I guess it doesn't. I thought it did...
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