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From: hawley@adobe.COM (Steve Hawley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7 and cache
Message-ID: <10353@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 91 18:39:24 GMT
References: <636@adimail.UUCP>
Reply-To: hawley@adobe.UUCP (Steve Hawley)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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In article <636@adimail.UUCP> tel@adimail.UUCP (Terry Monks) writes:
>   The problem is that when the system crashes and I reboot, the last few
>message files are not updated, and I can only assume it is because they
>are still cached. So I go to the control panel - memory - and note that
>disk cache is adjustable but is always on. Is there *any* way to turn
>it off?

Do you have a call to FlushVol() after you have updated a file?  It was my
impression that this guarantees that the file state on disk is consistent
with the file state in memory.

Steve Hawley
hawley@adobe.com
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