According to Paulo A. P. Pires:
>
> when writing to a very large file or
>when writing many files in sequence (but this is not a rule: some
>times, even a single short file write operation can cause trouble).

I have not seen that on my FAT partition but the size of my partition
is about 1Gig.  I have copied files of about 30Meg in size without
problems.  I wonder if the size of your partition is triggering some
bug in the code....

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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