Re: FullWrite mystery file

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From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1989 16:46

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>Anyway, as I was going through the rescued files, I ran into a large (215K)
>file named VM7173949.  It's creator was FWRT (FullWrite) and it's type
>is FWVM.  What is this?  I can't open it and I'd like to get rid of it
>if I don't need it

Zap it. It's just a temporary file that FullWrite uses to implement the disk
side of its virtual memory scheme.



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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: FullWrite mystery file
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Date: 23 Mar 89 16:46:50 GMT
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