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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS problem ?
Message-ID: <1731@atari.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 89 20:30:08 GMT
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Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:

>I encountered a strange TOS behaviour (TOS 1.2):
>I Fcreate a file, then Fopen the same file (not very usual, I agree).
>... Finally I close the second handle, and forget to close the
>first one, (or close that last). Result: an empty file. 

Well, that's interesting, but only just.  Opening the same file
twice is something which GEMDOS doesn't handle well (pun intended).

I can apologize for only so long for how bad GEMDOS is before the 
blame shifts from the guy who wrote it (for introducing the bugs) to me
(for not fixing them).  I hope I haven't gotten to that point yet.

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