Re: Removable media in MiNT

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Mario Becroft wrote:

> I never really resolved this problem, about how to ensure that there are
> no open files on the disc, and that the buffers are flushed, before I
> remove the cartridge. I seem to have been lucky since I haven't suffered

Won't a forced mediachange (shift+esc in Thing) do that? Anyway, I always
use Thing to eject zips, and I would be surprised if this doesn't flush
the caches as it use the appropriate Dcntl() (I guess/hope...).


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