On Monday 09 April 2018 09:51:37 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 09:46:07AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > To your original problem, have you tried going to a command line and > > throwing in a couple =sync=s? I would try that, maybe after saving > > in your editor, and again maybe after open and / or saving in the > > cnc program. > > As others have explained, the OS (Linux) keeps a cache of file > contents that have been written by applications, but not yet committed > to permanent storage. If you "save" from within the text editor, then > the saved contents should be immediately visible to other processes > reading the file, regardless of whether it has been synced to disk. > They'll simply get the cached version.
Which is not happening after several hours and a hundred or more edits. Which is why its so intermittent. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>