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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dos disk buffering schemes (BUFFERS=)
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Date: 25 Jan 89 11:05:38 GMT
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In-reply-to: leisner@arisia.Xerox.COM's message of 24 Jan 89 22:27:54 GMT

DOS's buffering scheme is only applied to partial sector reads, which stdio
is supposed to *prevent*.  Sounds like you need your own disk cache.
--
--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])
"I saved the whales!" - Rebecca L. Nelson, 3.5 years old, on receiving her
Christmas present of a whale "adoption" certificate.  Bless her liberal heart.