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From: dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: Elvis & MS-DOS
Summary: Renaming open files...
Keywords: ms-dos elvis bugs
Message-ID: <5009@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 90 22:43:56 GMT
References: <8@pdxgate.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs - Lincroft, NJ
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In article <8@pdxgate.UUCP> kirkenda@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steve Kirkendall) writes:
>Sorry to post this non-source article in a sources newsgroup, but...
	And I'm sorry to reply in a non-source newsgroup, but that's
	where the post was.

>I have been told that MS-DOS can't
>rename an open file, safely; if you try it you may damage your filesystem.

Has anybody encountered this with versions of MSDOS before 4.0?
I had believed this to be a problem of 4.0 and later, but need to be
disabused of this notion if I'm wrong.

Dave