From: kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 09:21:51 -0400
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Subject: Re: interrupting with ctrl-C
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   From: elric AT wheel DOT dcn DOT davis DOT ca DOT us (Jeffrey Taylor)
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   Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
   : 
   : On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Erik Max Francis wrote:
   : 
   : > Or just use fflush.
   : 
   : `fflush' is not enough when redirection is used, or when you invoke a 
   : child program that reads from a file written by the parent.  You should 
   : either close the file or call `fsync' to ensure DOS flushes its buffers.  
   : `fflush' only flushes the DJGPP buffers, but not the DOS ones.

   If you are using SMARTDRV, its buffers need to be flushed too.  Off the 
   top of my head, I would spawn a call to run "smartdrv /c"

As of DOS 6.20 DOS asks SMARTDRV to flush its buffers before it displays the
command prompt when a program exits.

-- 
Art S. Kagel, kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com

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