Re: [cc65] Filenames for POSIX functins on CBM targets

From: Groepaz <groepaz1gmx.net>
Date: 2012-08-11 20:51:03
On Saturday 11 August 2012, Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote:
> A file name starting with '@' tells the drive to scratch the file before
> opening it. But the implementation has bugs on several drives that may lead
> to data loss, so its use is strongly discouraged.

noooo - the problem here is that the drive will NOT scratch the file before 
writing the new one, it tries to allocate more space for it and then fails 
gloriosly (overwriting other files if you are unlucky).
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