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From: er1m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ethan J. Rasiel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: deskview question
Message-ID: <Mc3JcKS00awJECnGJN@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 91 08:34:30 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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I'm sorry if this question is too simple, but it has been puzzling me
for some time.
Say I open 2 deskview windows, and start downloading a file in one of the them.
Then I switch to the other window.  The file that is downloading appears as a 0
length file regardless of how much has been actually downloaded.  If I
do a dir,
I assume that the amount of free space dos reports is therefore wrong,
since dos
isn't accounting for the file that is not fully downloaded yet.  I
assume this happens
because deskview doesn't allocate the clusters for the file until it is
finished writing
the file.  So, what prevents me from writing to the same area from the other 
window?  I hope this makes sense!

Ethan