Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl::SetFileInfo Help (fwd)

[Terje Bless <link@tss.no>]

At 10:29 -0500 30-06-97, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:
>The OPEN command does not guarantee that the file is
>created immediately.  Only that you wish to open and/or
>create a file if it isn't there.  With a ram cache (which
>is automatically engaged in  Mac OS version 7.5 and later),
>the open command can be cached and, until a flush is issued
>(ie: a close usually does this) by the user or system, the
>request to create a new file can take as long as five
>minutes.

Soooo, is there a way (except open/close/open) to flush the disk cache from
MacPerl? I don't suppose flushing the filehandle does any good?

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