Date:	Wed, 4 Sep 1996 19:17:02 -0400
From:	dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id:	<199609042317.TAA11014@delorie.com>
To:	csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<1.5.4.16.19960904104128.380f1880@dmeasc.rc.ipt.br> (message from Cesar Scarpini Rabak on Wed, 4 Sep 1996 13:34:06 -0300)
Subject:	Re: interrupting with ctrl-C

> This correct in full Eli, but what I think people concern here is an
> eventual power failure or hardware (damage/crash), which may lose exactly
> the last time window of your precious log. (I know better, because of of my
> customers had this problem)!

I encountered this situation a lot when developing djgpp itself.  All
hard hangs resulted in lost data until I disabled the write-back cache
feature of smartdrive, and I haven't lost data since.

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