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- From: mlewis@wplace (Mark Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Waffle and Share.exe question?
- Message-ID: <sXu6VB1w165w@wplace>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 01:49:51 GMT
- References: <samXVB2w165w@visavis.uucp>
- Reply-To: mlewis%wplace@cssnet.UUCP
- Organization: The Waffle House, Waldo's Place USA
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- abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (August Abolins) writes:
- > jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (jim mcnicholas) writes:
- > > abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (August Abolins) writes:
- > > > My DOS 5.0 manual does not document /F. Maybe I missed it. What page
- > > > is it on?
- > > It's an Undocumented feature!! try it it works, put /f on
- > > the end of your shell line watch when you switch to the A:
- > > drive without anything in it! Your system just goes on about
- > Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't work for me:
- > ~~~~~~~
- > E:\>a:
- > Not ready reading drive A
- > Abort, Retry, Fail?Current drive is no longer valid>a
- >
- > Not ready reading drive A
- > Abort, Retry, Fail?Invalid drive specification
- > Bad command or file name
-
- where are the a's and <cr>'s coming from?? you did reboot after adding
- the /f right?? it has worked here and on every machine i've installed
- since DOS 5 came out...
-
- also i notice that in the above quotes, jim@jimmc.chi.il.us says that
- changing to the A: drive will fail... actually it does... but it then
- comes up with the "Current drive is no longer valid"... i assume that it
- is here that you are hitting a for abort...
-
- try it this way... with A: door open, DIR A:
-
- it might take a second or two, but DOS will fail once or twice and
- return to the command prompt (or .BAT file) on the default drive (which
- should not be the A: drive...
-
- > And my CONFIG.SYS contains:
- >
- > device=c:\umb_drvr.sys /C=02 /M=........................
-
- what's this?? it isn't something that came with DOS... it may inhibit
- DOS's /F for some reason...
-
- > devicehigh=c:\himem.sys
- > DOS=HIGH,UMB
- > devicehigh=c:\mouse\mouse.sys
- > shell=c:\dos50\command.com /e:1800 /p /f
- > devicehigh=c:\ramdrive.sys 768 /e
- > devicehigh=c:\util\tansi.sys
- > stacks=0,0
- > buffers=30,8
- > FILES=39
- > break=ON
-
- and why have BREAK=ON... it slows down procesing unnecessarily and
- should not be needed unless absolutely necessary, IMHO..
-
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