Re: Resolved! (was: output buffer in SQR? )

[David Thompson-Hall <david.thompson-hall@DOIT.WISC.EDU>]

At 08:47 AM 4/1/02 -0600, John S. Fetzik wrote:
>The problem is with Windows, not TextPad. TextPad will detect changes to the
>file, but only when Windows actually decides to write to the disk. Because
>of the way that Windows caches disk reads and writes it can be a while
>before the write shows up on disk and that information is available to other
>programs. Basically under Windows you can not count on the contents of a
>file if any program has it open.

This makes perfect sense to me... but it doesn't fit what I saw.

I was able to get "current info" to show in TextPad if I used the "Revert
to saved" command, which basically re-read the disk.

Because this seemed to work, I take it that Windows was writing stuff to
disk, but TextPad wasn't catching the updates.

I'd bet that something got lost in the "update" process -- either TextPad
wasn't looking, or Windows wasn't notifying it.  Either way, knowing I can
"refresh" is good enough for me.

DTH

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