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From: psfales@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Peter Fales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Does DRIVPARM actually work?
Summary: Yes, it does on DOS 3.2 and 3.3
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Date: 11 Dec 89 22:59:44 GMT
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After seeing several articles on this topic, it looks like it is
time to post this again.  It has already been reposted several times
(by me), in addition to the original posting.  I have no idea how
anyone found this out, but I have tried it on several different DOS 3.3
systems and it works great:

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From: rde@ukc.ac.uk (R.D.Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DRIVPARM config.sys variable - how do I access it?
Keywords: PC-DOS 3.30,DRIVPARM,config.sys
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Date: 27 Feb 89 10:25:16 GMT
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I did post this before, but I fear it got lost....

There is a simple way of making DRIVPARM work, at least on PC-DOS 3.3 (I have
tried it and it works). It is *extremely* baroque, but who cares?

Place three control-A characters (yes, the ASCII value 1) into the line
after the DRIVPARM= bit, before the parameters. If we represent CONTROL-A
as ^A, the line might look like this:

     DRIVPARM=^A^A^A/D:n /F:n   ... etc

I don't know why it works, but it sure does!
-- 
           Bob Eager
           rde@ukc.UUCP
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