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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!rei2!fox
- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0 and 'F'ailing...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.001310.17324@rei.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:13:10 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.034345.15413@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
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- dww2@po.CWRU.Edu (David W. Woodward) writes:
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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.
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- You put the switch on the SHELL= line in CONFIG.SYS:
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- SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P /F
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