There are no safety checks in MS-DOS to prevent you from restarting MS-DOS while a copy is in progress. Since the Macintosh OS cannot determine if files are open in the DOS container, there is no way to prevent this.
The only way to prevent zero length or corrupted files is not to press the Control-Alt(Option)-Del keys when the computer is copying files.
Article Change History:
22 Feb 1995 - Added keyword; minor updates.
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