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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:25:35 +0000
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Subject: Re: [AL] VBA/AF Problems
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Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net> wrote:

> [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.
> ;-)

And won't destroy your data copying a wrong copy of the FAT or assuming some 
stupid thing.

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