From: "Alexander Russell" <alexad3 AT uniserve DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Directory "sync"?
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 21:42:14 -0800
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How is the sharing accomplished?

The interrupts below relate to reading and writing data to files on ONE
device, and have nothing to do with 'syncing up' multiple disks.

Looks like you want to share your drive via a LAN, but I'm not sure.

"Mark T" <marktnospam AT shore DOT net> wrote in message
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> Greetings!
>
> I have a scsi disk that's essentially shared by two
> machines.  If I add a file from one machine, I'd
> like the other to see it (under DOS of course).
>
> I've tried the "disk reset" interrupts (int21) -
> but I can't find info regarding this:
>
> Int21 - AH=0dh:
> "This function writes all modified disk buffers to
> disk, but does not update the directory information
> (that is only done when files are closed or a
> SYNC call is issued)"
>
> What SYNC call?  I found one under djgpp and tried
> it, but it didn't seem to do what I need.  Is there
> another sync I can't find?  Do I need to open a
> bogus file and close it to refresh the directory
> listing?
>
> thanks for any help!
>
> Mark