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Subject: Re: make 3.79.1 problem with copy command (Windows XP)
Date: 23 Jul 2004 09:16:12 GMT
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Rob Uiterlinden <uiterl AT xspamxnlr DOT nl> wrote:

[Please break down your lines somewhere before column 80.  Fixed.]

> Yes, in fact it is for a data recording system that writes data as
> formatted text in a file on a MS-DOS file system. The file is
> pre-allocated, so only the data in the file changes during
> recording, and not the file system. In that way, the file system
> will never get corrupted when the power is turned off. 

Not the filesystem, but the data in the actual file can be corrupted
just as easily with this method as with the more usual one.
If you're just writing a rather long version, so you plough beyond
the previous version's Ctrl-Z, and power fails before you reach
the new Ctrl-Z position, you'll end up with a file with no Ctrl-Z
in it, and thus no way of knowing where it actually ends.