Elvis & MS-DOS

Dave Tutelman dmt at pegasus.ATT.COM
Fri Aug 31 08:43:56 AEST 1990


In article <8 at pdxgate.UUCP> kirkenda at eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steve Kirkendall) writes:
>Sorry to post this non-source article in a sources newsgroup, but...
	And I'm sorry to reply in a non-source newsgroup, but that's
	where the post was.

>I have been told that MS-DOS can't
>rename an open file, safely; if you try it you may damage your filesystem.

Has anybody encountered this with versions of MSDOS before 4.0?
I had believed this to be a problem of 4.0 and later, but need to be
disabused of this notion if I'm wrong.

Dave



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