Re: [MiNT] ram disk fs problem

[Lonny Pursell <atari@bright.net>]

on 8/9/10 4:44 PM, Peter Slegg wrote:

> On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:40:59 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 21:51 +0200, Peter Slegg wrote:
>>> On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:36:34 -0400, Lonny Pursell <atari@bright.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> on 8/9/10 11:00 AM, Paul Wratt wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> For instance, download aniplayer.zip and open it with Arcview.
>>>>>> Now drag the content to the ramdisc window.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It will seem to extract it but nothing will appear in the
>>>>>> window.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you try to extract it again, then it will stall because
>>>>>> it will try to overwrite to folder/files that are not visible.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Peter
>>>> 
>>>> Uhm, that's normal.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> No it's not.
>>> 
>>> It's nothing to do with window refresh.
>> 
>> It's got to be something like that Peter, because the ramdisk works
>> perfectly well from a console window here.
>> 
>> Alan.
> 
> This has worked until a few months ago. It may be a "refresh" bug
> but it is not my failure to refresh the window.
> 
> There was a lot of discussion about QED and the RAMdisc and I had
> noticed this bug.
> 
> Peter

When I save a file from qed to the ramdisk, the ramdisk window updates fine,
also from my own GFA editor.  Perhaps your system is fubar.

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