Lahey Support
08-15-2003, 01:19 AM
At 02:09 PM 1/30/99 -0500, Michael Milgram wrote:
>Hello all.
>
le using SCANDISK, but
>it is always the wrong length and therefore unuseable. If I could
>access the file from another window while the big program was running, I
>could write a program that copies the latest version of the checkpoint
>file to a second file every few hours, so it could be retrieved when the
>system crashes. Closing and re-opening the file, or flushing buffers
from inside the main program is not an option - the program logic is far
>too complex and writes too many intermediate files from the same place
>to allow this. Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>For other reasons, I have to compile using F77L3, so any ideas that
>would allow me to continue compiling with that compiler would be even
>more appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>Mike Milgram
>
Sorry, it was late and I failed to read all of your message - please
ignore my erroneous comments.
ralph frisbie
>
>Hello all.
>
le using SCANDISK, but
>it is always the wrong length and therefore unuseable. If I could
>access the file from another window while the big program was running, I
>could write a program that copies the latest version of the checkpoint
>file to a second file every few hours, so it could be retrieved when the
>system crashes. Closing and re-opening the file, or flushing buffers
from inside the main program is not an option - the program logic is far
>too complex and writes too many intermediate files from the same place
>to allow this. Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>For other reasons, I have to compile using F77L3, so any ideas that
>would allow me to continue compiling with that compiler would be even
>more appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>Mike Milgram
>
Sorry, it was late and I failed to read all of your message - please
ignore my erroneous comments.
ralph frisbie
>