-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Daran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 March 2001 11:39
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Security of prime95
>On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 06:02:48 -0000, Daran wrote:
>
>(snip)
>>Better would be to include in your start-up scripts code to copy the data
>>files from your prime95 directory into your mprime directory, while copying
in
>>the reverse direction when you shutdown.
>
>I've been considering doing just that, however, after thinking on it
>for some time, I can't see any way to be certain that it would work
>even if Linux shut down improperly.
Neither can I. But you'd only loose the work you'd done since booting into
linux. Or you could set up a cron job to copy the files from your mprime
directory to prime95 every half hour or so.
>Nathan
Daran G.
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