Hello Jonathan, On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:09:43 -0500 GMT (19/06/02, 12:09 +0700 GMT), Jonathan Angliss wrote:
JA> Depends on your standpoint... from what I've experience with the software we JA> write, most anti-virus applications have a habbit of locking a file just before JA> the file gets read, moved, copied, or deleted. Now when TB goes to delete the JA> file, the anti-virus program locks the file, so TB gets a flag saying file busy, JA> I'm sure the coders may have added in a try statement to attempt to do it 3 JA> times... depending on the system, and setup, this may fail several times, [...] Sounds like you know what you are talking about. I also have this issue sometimes, namely batxxxx.tmp files in the temp directory. Seems to depend onthe weather or what whether I have them (and then in the thousands per day) or not. Your article explains it. However, over here most of these tmp files have a length of 0 (zero) bytes. Would you venture to take a guess at what may cause those? I am not losing any mails. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Everybody repeat after me....."We are all individuals." Message reply created with The Bat! 1.60q under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60q FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/

