Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!daffy!cat3.cs.wisc.edu!bodoh From: bodoh@cat3.cs.wisc.edu (Daniel Bodoh) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: deskview question Message-ID: <1991Apr19.044110.7933@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 19 Apr 91 04:41:10 GMT References: Sender: news@daffy.cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 24 In article er1m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ethan J. Rasiel) writes: [Stuff deleted] >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. [More stuff deleted] >I assume this happens >because deskview doesn't allocate the clusters for the file until it is >finished writing the file. > >Ethan I don't think this has anything to do with DESQview, but how DOS opens files. The info you see in a DIR is not updated until the DOS call that closes the file is called. If you get out of DESQview and use a text editor to edit a file, then shell out and do a directory, you'll see the same thing. In other words, it's nothing to worry about. In fact, you see the same thing in UNIX. Dan Bodoh BTW - Try to format you messages for 80 character screens - it's easier to read for most of us.