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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: 4dos misfeature?
Summary: Probably FASTOPEN or other cache
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Date: 7 Mar 91 18:17:17 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.192824.9889@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <H7Rey2w164w@halcyon.uucp> <1828@manta.NOSC.MIL>
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I've seen this type of thing happen with 4DOS, and I've been assuming
it's an unfortunate interaction with FASTOPEN.  The other day I
wanted to rename directory \AN to \AN2, so I did
	cd \
	mv AN AN2
where mv is an alias for "move", and my Unix-trained fingers prefer
to type "mv".

This worked fine; i.e., the directory \AN was renamed to \AN2, but
there was still a phantom \AN directory there, which I could execute
"dir" on or "cd" to.  It disappeared on next reboot, leading me to
believe it was FASTOPEN remembering too much.

This is 4DOS 3.02a and MS-DOS 3.30a.

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