ELVIS WARNING - LOST CLUSTERS ON PC's

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Thu Sep 6 04:32:28 AEST 1990


In article <3280 at gmdzi.UUCP> strobl at gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
> A really perfect argument. MSDOS filesystem semantics are different from
> Unix filesystem semantics. This shows how poor DOS is. Oh well...

No, the fact that deleting an open file damages the disk structure rather
than generating an error condition (as in VMS or AmigaOS) or making a
temporary unnamed file (as in UNIX) shows you how poor DOS is.
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