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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
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Subject: Re: Stumpers
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Date: 13 Jan 90 13:42:55 GMT
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In article <13500004@hpdtl.HP.COM>, conway@hpdtl.HP.COM (Daniel F. Conway) wrote:
} [lost clusters]
}The easiest way I know of for this to happen is to have a program open a file
}for output, and then end without closing it.  This will happen if, for
}instance, you must kill a runaway program that has files open.

This is much less of a problem under DOS 3.x, since it closes all open files
when one of the non-TSR program exit functions is called.  DESQview is also
nice enough to close all open files when you kill a window.

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