How safe??

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 2/21/03 2:40 PM, Jan Erik Moström at lists at mostrom.pp.se wrote:

> I have a REALbasic application that does some text parsing and store the
> result as text files, this application runs in OS 9 and sometimes it
> might crash (due to bugs in the program and sometimes becuase other
> program crashes ... I like to think that the main reason is the last one
> 8-).
> 
> The problem is that there is considerable manual work done during the
> parsing and each session can involve the parsing of a large number of
> files. This means that if I'm unlucky I might lose some data because the
> text have been buffered in RAM and REALbasic doesn't allow me to flush
> the files after writing (not even closing/opening the files guarantee
> this).

You sure ?!!!

> So in a moment of creative thinking I started to consider using
> Valentina as the output file, it can be flushed but what I don't know is
> how sensitive Valentina is for a crash, does the database become
> unreadable or ...? What are your experiences?

IN WORSE CASE, It can become unreadable.

But in most cases, it must be okay.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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