On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:14:20 +0100, "Alan B. Pearce"
<Alan.B.Pearce@stfc.ac.uk> said:
> > On the other hand, Windows XP always seemed to double-buffer, so after
> > the files transferred, there was a wait time as it did an internal
> > copy or move.
> 
> Oh, you mean you observed it caching files in memory, to get the speed
> up, 
> then writing from memory to disk? Standard way for many OS's to work, not 
> just Windows. 

No, the files appear temporarily in some subdirectory under "documents
and settings".

-Bob

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