roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (09/02/90)
dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman) writes: > In article <8@pdxgate.UUCP> kirkenda@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steve Kirkendall) write > >Sorry to post this non-source article in a sources newsgroup, but... > And I'm sorry to reply in a non-source newsgroup, but that's > where the post was. [followup has been moved to alt.sources.d, even though you can compile and run my .sig :-) ] > >I have been told that MS-DOS can't > >rename an open file, safely; if you try it you may damage your filesystem. > > Has anybody encountered this with versions of MSDOS before 4.0? > I had believed this to be a problem of 4.0 and later, but need to be > disabused of this notion if I'm wrong. I've hit the problem in DOS 3.3, as well. The same problem occurs if you unlink an open file. The result will be that the clusters belonging to that file will be lost. <sigh!> Someday, I'll have a Unix box and can leave this DOS-stress behind. -- Roy M. Silvernail |+| roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu |+| #define opinions ALL_MINE; main(){float x=1;x=x/50;printf("It's only $%.2f, but it's my $%.2f!\n",x,x);} "This is cyberspace." -- Peter da Silva :--: "...and I like it here!" -- me
bmw@isgtec.uucp (Bruce M. Walker) (09/03/90)
In article <8@pdxgate.UUCP> kirkenda@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steve Kirkendall) writes: > [...] > The other bug is potentially dangerous. I have been told that MS-DOS can't > rename an open file, safely; if you try it you may damage your filesystem. > Because of this, I recommend that everybody stop using MS-DOS immediately. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Good advice, but I'm afraid you may be too late. By now there must be 10's of millions of people using MS-DOS. BTW, :-) -- bmw@isgtec.uucp [ ..uunet!utai!lsuc!isgtec!bmw ] Bruce Walker