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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: TASKS and DIRECT_IO, weird data errors
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 06:21:21 GMT
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In article
<P8md6.6882$cD2.229397@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>,
  "squeaker" <squeaker@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> i am really at a loss, to why when i copy from one file to
another a
> character at a time using direct_io i

There is absolutely NO reason to think that Direct_IO can
be used to create a literal copy of a file, and furthermore
it is an appallingly inefficient way of doing things (see
the recent thread on this subject - it has optimization in
the subject line).


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