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Article #1085Re: Robust design for dosdis expire
From: Peter Disdale
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <830253445.27186@thokk.demon.co.uk> Malcolm@demon.net "Malcolm Muir" writes: > Graham E Kinns (Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk) wrote: > > > Famous last words ... place the above on hold as well - Unlucky Alf > > here has just managed to trash his history.snw as there's no checking > > for disk full/write failure in expire.c expire_history(), is there? > > (well, there is now ... ;) > > How much do you value your time. 1Gb of disk costs about 120pds in > these parts :) And yet Demon's disks still manage to fill up and cause newsfeeds to be stalled.... But to be serious (back on-topic even) fitting a bigger disk does not _solve_ the problem, rather _defers_ it. And most likely causes even more mess when the inevitable happens. Anyway, those of us that make our living from mending errant software would be out of a job were memory and disk resources not finite :-) More often than not "right" and "expedient" lead to different solutions to a problem; please keep up the good work, Graham! -- Pete
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