Extraneous data after OSLib zips

[Richard van der Hoff]

In message <zeal$PAsiMx4EwXv at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
          Tony van der Hoff <OSLib at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

good.
 
> I don't think it was anything so simple as the archive remaining open;

I do (though I don't have a relevant version of SparkFS to check).  My
reading of the SparkFS !ReadMe is that SparkFS deliberately caches data
written to archives for a few seconds, to speed up the way the FilerAction
system keeps opening and closing the image file when copying lots of files.

The dismount command makes SparkFS remove the offending archive from
memory, thus flushing the cache.

> <snip>

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

mumble...

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