>From experience, using a flash dongle, I can tell you that under both OSX and cygwin on Win2K, the files are not actually saved until you tell the OS to unmount the drive. I've lost way too many files by pulling the dongle too soon! ;)
DaR > -----Original Message----- > From: Anton Ertl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 10:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gforth] flush for sure SAVE-BUFFERS > > > John Peters wrote: > > I had that problem with F83s a few years ago. We decided to write a > > Save-Buffers Forth word that closed the file and reopened > it instantly to be > > sure everything was written to disk. > > I don't think closing a file fsyncs it under Linux. > > - anton > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
