[alt.sources.d] ELVIS WARNING - LOST CLUSTERS ON PC's

peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (09/06/90)

In article <3280@gmdzi.UUCP> strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
> A really perfect argument. MSDOS filesystem semantics are different from
> Unix filesystem semantics. This shows how poor DOS is. Oh well...

No, the fact that deleting an open file damages the disk structure rather
than generating an error condition (as in VMS or AmigaOS) or making a
temporary unnamed file (as in UNIX) shows you how poor DOS is.
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