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Article #15629Re: Major bug in all(?) versions of MS-DOS.
From: kneller
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1987 21:39
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1987 21:39
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In article <479@ima.UUCP> johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) writes: >In article <4274@utah-cs.UUCP> b-davis@utah-cs.UUCP (Brad Davis) writes: >>; Here is a probable bug (or feature) in MS-DOS. ... >>; [ ...] >It's a feture. That is, it's supposed to work that way. As far as I can >tell, when you create a file, DOS writes a directory entry that is zero >length. When you close the file, DOS rewrites the directory entry. If >you try to read the file in the meantime, you lose. You *can* read the file if you opened the file with read/write access and position the file pointer back to the beginning of the file with "lseek". ----- Don Kneller UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!kneller ARPA: kneller@cgl.ucsf.edu BITNET: kneller@ucsfcgl.BITNET
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!kneller From: kneller@ucsfcgl.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Major bug in all(?) versions of MS-DOS. Message-ID: <10058@cgl.ucsf.edu.ucsfcgl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 8-Feb-87 16:39:34 EST Article-I.D.: cgl.10058 Posted: Sun Feb 8 16:39:34 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 9-Feb-87 04:37:46 EST References: <4274@utah-cs.UUCP> <479@ima.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucsfcgl.UUCP Reply-To: kneller@cgl.ucsf.edu (Don Kneller) Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab Lines: 16 Keywords: bug