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  2. Abort, Retry, Fail? - Wikipedia

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    This may be supported by the drivers for some removable media when a file is opened with a full volume name or the disk is removed while the file is open. However, for mundane actions similar to what triggered the prompt in DOS, such as attempting to read "E:" when there is no disk in the CD drive, Windows produces an immediate "Fail".

  3. Wikipedia:Bypass your cache - Wikipedia

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    Select "Temporary Internet Files" at the top, and click "Delete". (If Wikipedia is in your list of favorites, you may need to turn off the "Preserve Favorites website data" at the top of the dialog box.) Internet Explorer will now silently delete the items you have chosen.

  4. Special folder - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1: Windows Explorer's folder view in Windows XP uses virtual folders as the root.. Windows uses the concept of special folders to present the contents of the storage devices connected to the computer in a fairly consistent way that frees the user from having to deal with absolute file paths, which can (and often do) change between operating system versions, and even individual ...

  5. Memory corruption - Wikipedia

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    Using non-owned memory: It is common to use pointers to access and modify memory. If such a pointer is a null pointer, dangling pointer (pointing to memory that has already been freed), or to a memory location outside of current stack or heap bounds, it is referring to memory that is not then possessed by the program. Using such pointers is a ...

  6. XCOPY - Wikipedia

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    In computing, XCOPY is a command used on IBM PC DOS, MS-DOS, IBM OS/2, [1] Microsoft Windows, [2] FreeDOS, [3] ReactOS, [4] and related operating systems for copying multiple files or entire directory trees from one directory to another and for copying files across a network.

  7. Core dump - Wikipedia

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    By extension, the phrase "to dump core" has come to mean in many cases, any fatal error, regardless of whether a record of the program memory exists. The term "core dump", "memory dump", or just "dump" has also become jargon to indicate any output of a large amount of raw data for further examination or other purposes.

  8. Named pipe - Wikipedia

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    Named pipes cannot be created as files within a normal filesystem, unlike in Unix. Also unlike their Unix counterparts, named pipes are volatile (removed after the last reference to them is closed). Every pipe is placed in the root directory of the named pipe filesystem (NPFS), mounted under the special path \\.\pipe\ (that is, a pipe named ...

  9. Out of memory - Wikipedia

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    Out of memory screen display on system running Debian 12 (Linux kernel 6.1.0-28) Out of memory (OOM) is an often undesired state of computer operation where no additional memory can be allocated for use by programs or the operating system. Such a system will be unable to load any additional programs, and since many programs may load additional ...