Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:58:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: `sync' on MSDOS
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On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>So: does anybody know a simple way to cause *any* cache to flush itself?  
>Here is what I know:
>
>	1) Windows 95 has a function (710Dh) to do that.
>	2) SmartDrv has also such a function.
>	3) Any other cache has such function also, but it's impossible to 
>call them all.
>
>I suspect that making an Int 13h call (e.g., seek to track 0, or disk 
>reset) will also flush the cache, but does anybody know for sure?
This should do. I saw a shareware disk editor which did just that. All disk
caches intercept INT 13h reset call and flush their buffers when the request
is made. I remember someone saying that Norton Utilities does just that to
flush caches.

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