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From: c162-br@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (Warner Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The DANGERS of TURBO-DOS
Message-ID: <2497@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Date: 18 Apr 88 18:24:43 GMT
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Reply-To: c162-br@zooey.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Warner Young)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Keywords: turbo dos cache bug fix ???
Summary: Get around the cache?


	As I understand it, TurboDOS seems to do some disk caching, so
ejecting a floppy from your drive may cause disastrous things to happen
to the FAT, etc., etc.  But if you exit an application, it flushes the
cache completely.  So if you just have a really small program on your
disk that you could run, just run it and exit before you eject your
disk.  It might be a little trouble, but it sounds to me like this would
solve the problem, as the cache would then get flushed to the disk when
you exit from your program.  Can anyone tell me if I'm right?


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