Re: Permanent Swap File

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From: Raul Baragiola
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 1990 03:51

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In article <1990Nov21.193746.11324@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
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>No, the problem is not with SDK, but because Windows (for speed) bypasses
>certain DOS functions related to disk access and does the operations itself.
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>Resident disk manager programs are bypassed and this can lead to trouble.
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Can anyone elaborate on this?  Does Windows treat marginal sectors in the
same way DOS does? Does it check for free space before writing to disk?

Raul A. Baragiola                               \Internet: raul@virginia.edu
Dept. Nuclear Engnr. and Engnr. Physics          \Phone: (804)-982-2907
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 \ Fax: (804)-924-6270

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