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- From: goldrick@ug.cs.dal.ca (Majeed Goldrick)
- Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0 and 'F'ailing
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- Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:26:24 GMT
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- >I remember reading (several times actually) about an undocumented switch in
- >DOS 5 that makes it default to a 'F'ail status on bad disk reads, trying to
- >read a floppy with the door open, etc. Now, I need to know how to do that,
- >and of COURSE, I can't find the references. Can anybody help me? Thanks!
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- The switch you refer to is the /f switch for command.com. I saw it in
- a recent issue (This month's?) PC/Computing.
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- Majeed.
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