Re: question

[tolsen@netcom.com (Terry R. Olsen)]

Joseph Turner (jturner@tartarus.uwa.edu.au) wrote:

:   Hi , I was wondering what the command "FLUSH" does on prodos. I came 
: across it when I was scanning a prodos disk.

The FLUSH command does any updating to an OPEN file without closing it.  
It's basically the same as a CLOSE command except that it doesn't 
actually close the file.  This is used primarily in programs where a file 
remains open for an extended period of time and the FLUSH command is used 
to update (write any cached data to the file) so that in the event of a 
crash or power failure or any such circumstance, the data will not be lost.