Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!decwrl!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpcvlx!bturner From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: disk updates and power failures Message-ID: <1180037@hpcvlx.HP.COM> Date: 8 Jul 88 16:41:53 GMT References: <472@apctrc.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA Lines: 15 There are two things that can be done to keep disk files updated correctly: 1) The SYNC call will flush the "dirty" disk buffers, but this doesn't update the file length in the directory. The data is there, but the dir entry has a different size. 2) You can close and reopen the file after each write. Don't laugh! This is the only way I know of using DOS (and not doing nasty things yourself) to force the file to be correctly updated to disk after each write. --Bill Turner HP Corvallis Workstation Operation "Every time I have to kill someone who's family, I get depressed." --Ferman Crotty (Ed Asner), "The Wild, Wild West"