Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!cs4g6ag
From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: (abort,retry...) *IGNORE* (?)
Summary: Abort, Retry, Ignore?
Message-ID: <2511DCDC.12036@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 16 Sep 89 05:40:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.2511DCDC.12036
References: <524@enprt.Wichita.NCR.COM> <216100142@trsvax>
Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <216100142@trsvax> slimer@trsvax.UUCP writes:
$  From my understanding of the "abort, retry, ignore?" as traced through
$  the BIOS listing is that you will get this message if there is a problem
$  reading the disk. If you Ignore at this statement, what-ever information
$  it did read from the disk is used, if you Retry, it will again try the
$  I/O. If you abort, guess?
[...]

   Ignore does in fact mean "use the data as it no error occurred", and retry
does in fact mean the obvious "try reading it again".  Abort means that the
DOS call which generated the error returns with an error code.  The behaviour
of the application depends on whether or not it checks its DOS calls for errors
and, if so, how it treats them.

   The more recent versions of DOS (DOS 4, certainly, and perhaps late versions
of DOS 3 - I'm not sure and I don't really care) come up with the message

Abort, retry, fail

instead of A,R,I.

-- 
Stephen M. Dunn                              cs4g6ag@maccs.McMaster.CA
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