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- From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Normal MSDOS multitasking!
- Message-ID: <NDuwVB6w165w@cybrspc.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 22:59:22 CST
- References: <bern.724451246@kleopatra>
- Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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- bern@Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern) writes:
-
- > Another Proof: Try Piping when you "are" currently on a write-protected Flopp
- > Will fail with "write Error".
-
- Depends on your command processor. 4dos puts its tempfiles in a single,
- known directory on your hard drive. Handy feature, that.
-
- That also means the 'DIR | MORE' example wouldn't be obviously
- successful in 4dos, because the tempfiles are likely to be in a
- different directory.
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- Roy M. Silvernail -- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu - OR- cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu
- "I like Santa Claus as well as the next guy, but do you really want a
- hard drive that's spent 6000 miles at the bottom of a canvas sack in a
- wooden sleigh powered by airborne reindeer?" -- me
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