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From: gert@nikhefh.hep.nl (Gert Poletiek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The DANGERS of TURBO-DOS
Message-ID: <452@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Date: 16 Apr 88 12:56:09 GMT
References: <8804131634.AA17900@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <451@nikhefh.hep.nl> <1687@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: gert@nikhefh.hep.nl (Gert Poletiek)
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In article <1687@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> wolf@csclea.UUCP (Thomas Wolf) writes:
>In article <451@nikhefh.hep.nl> gert@nikhefh.hep.nl (Gert Poletiek) writes:
>>In article <8804131634.AA17900@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> WALDI@DHDIHEP1.BITNET writes:
>>>Hello! I tried TURBODOS (downloaded from UH-INFO). Really impressing
>>>speed-up, BUT: It spoilt a disk. Apparently it did not recognize
>>>a disk change, and copied the old disk's FAT to the changed new disk.
>
>This wouldn't be a problem on a hard-disk (inkling of ignorance showing
>through) would it?
>Tom Wolf


O YES II WOULD.  How about when shutting down the system? Do you happen to
have an equivalent of /etc/shotdown on your atari? Please recall what such a
beast does!

	sync; sync; sync;


When running TurboDos or any other fix for GemDos that preserves the DELAYED
WRITE cache having removed the bugs in it from the original GemDos 
ALWAYS QUIT FROM THE APPLICATION THAT DID THE MOST RECENT MODIFICATION TO THE
FILE SYSTEM. Unless ofcourse you like Damocles' sword...



Gert Poletiek

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