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- From: Deon.Strydom@p16.f1.n7104.z5.fidonet.org (Deon Strydom)
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- Subject: MS-DOS 5.0 and 'F'ailing...
- Message-ID: <1996.2AA3B41C@catpe.alt.za>
- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 06:47:30 GMT
- Organization: FidoNet node 5:7104/1.16 - The Catalyst BBS 1, Port Elizabeth
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- In a message of <Aug 31 21:53>, David W. Woodward (5:7104/2) wrote to All:
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- DWW> I remember reading (several times actually) about an undocumented
- DWW> switch in
- DWW> DOS 5 that makes it default to a 'F'ail status on bad disk reads,
- DWW> trying to
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- Hi David,
- In your Config.Sys, where you probably have something like SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /P, add /F to the end of the line.
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- Groetnis
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