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From: rb9a@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Raul Baragiola)
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Subject: Re: Permanent Swap File
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Date: 22 Nov 90 03:51:42 GMT
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In article <1990Nov21.193746.11324@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>Stuff deleted
>
>No, the problem is not with SDK, but because Windows (for speed) bypasses
>certain DOS functions related to disk access and does the operations itself.
>
>Resident disk manager programs are bypassed and this can lead to trouble.
>
Can anyone elaborate on this?  Does Windows treat marginal sectors in the
same way DOS does? Does it check for free space before writing to disk?


Raul A. Baragiola                               \Internet: raul@virginia.edu
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