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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 08:23:21 -0500
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From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: [AL] VBA/AF Problems
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[What's up with the mail list? The reply-to on the email I quote in
 this reply was some bogus address VERSTEEGH AT KVI DOT nl, and not
 djgpp AT delorie DOT com!].

At 02:04 PM 2/5/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Yes.., but there's nothing you can do about that.
>Linux has the same problem, smartdrive as well.
>I don't think ou can blame windows for that one.

Linux has no clusters, it has inodes. I guess it can have writeback
problems too, but it probably fixes them automatically at startup, withOUT
making the user
a) hear a beep,
b) press a key,
c) wait ten minutes,
d) and press another key.
;-)

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