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From: spcoltri@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Steven P Coltrin)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Zoo and files like 0e051642
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.024026.7836@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 02:40:26 GMT
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fireman@sunc7.cs.uiuc.edu writes:


>                    Files like 0e051e42 and 16050509?

>I'm using a batch file to do the backup for me and when I come out of it,
>the files are no longer around (although you can see them with Norton 
>Utilities).  Does DOS create these temporarily?

     Yep.  Whenever you use piping or redirection, DOS puts a pair of weird-
named temp files in the root directory during the task, then cleans them up
after.  I didn't know, though, that they had enough physical existence to show
on a deleted-file basis... something new every Turn.

>Thanks in advance,

>Neil Feiereisel         e-mail: fireman@uiuc.edu OR fireman@cs.uiuc.edu
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