Re: [Fractdev] Re: [Fractint] Fractint version 20.4 patch 7

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Author: Richard
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Subject: Re: [Fractdev] Re: [Fractint] Fractint version 20.4 patch 7

In article <476194F0.3060504@???>,
"Lee H. Skinner" <skinner@???> writes:

> I suspect it has something to do with the timing and buffering in
> Windows - the deleting of the old file after line 1195 not being
> executed by Windows until after the file was saved again at the end of
> the fractal's generation a few seconds later.


Windows doesn't do this. You ask to delete a file and its deleted by
the time the function returns. It doesn't say "oh, I'll do that at
some unspecified time in the future".

This just sounds like a bug to me, plain and simple.
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