Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 13:34:06 -0300
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        Jeffrey Taylor <elric AT wheel DOT dcn DOT davis DOT ca DOT us>
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: interrupting with ctrl-C
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 08:59 04/09/96 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On 3 Sep 1996, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
>
>> If you are using SMARTDRV, its buffers need to be flushed too.
>
>If all you want is to ensure that the DOS file system "knows" about all 
>the bytes you've written to the files, you DON'T need to flush the 
>caches.  That's because subsequent reads will check the cache first, and 
>will find those bytes there even if the actual disk write has been 
>delayed.
>
>Only when you are going to reboot, or switch off your machine, you need 
>actually to ensure the cache is flushed.
>
>
This correct in full Eli, but what I think people concern here is an
eventual power failure or hardware (damage/crash), which may lose exactly
the last time window of your precious log. (I know better, because of of my
customers had this problem)!
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