Extraneous data after OSLib zips

[Tony van der Hoff]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, at 22:56:37, Richard van der Hoff <rav21 at cam.ac.uk>
wrote on the subject "Extraneous data after OSLib zips":

>In message <PpUaSUAQY7w4Ewr3 at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
>          Tony van der Hoff <OSLib at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Ah, well, isn't that just the point? ;-)
>> 
>
>Just a thought, but what if you do 
>
>*sparkfs:Dismount <archive name> ?
>
Yep, that did the trick! Time will tell, but with that in place the
archive seems to get copied properly. Also, WinZip can read it, which
previously was not the case.

I don't think it was anything so simple as the archive remaining open;
but rather that the multitasking allowed the copy process to start
before Risc OS had written the file size to the directory. Putting in
this extra operation delays the onset of copying sufficiently for the
disc cache to be flushed (or something).

Thanks for that, anyway; Pleased to see the vdH brain-cell is still
functioning after the week-end ;-)

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