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- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Waffle and Share.exe question?
- Message-ID: <D7V8VB6w165w@cibbs.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 23:11:48 EST
- References: <F872VB1w163w@connect.com>
- Organization: DataSoft Consulting (Toronto, Ont. Canada)
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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
- > > > it's business the best part is if you put A:\ in a batch file
- > > > to switch to a: it won't crash the batch file it'll skip right
- > > > over it!
- > >
- > > Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't work for me:
- [lotsa stuff deleted]
-
- Please note that the above ONLY works for primary shells. That is, if you run
- COMMAND.COM to shell to DOS say from Waffle...this doesn't work.
-
- 4DOS has a workaround for this with the CritFail=YES for the primary and
- secondary shells.
-
- Mark
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