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From: mmurphy@convex.com (Michael Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Bypassing "Abort, Retry, Fail?"
Keywords: PC-NFS Turbo C access timeout Fail
Message-ID: <100581@convex.convex.com>
Date: 14 Mar 90 17:41:55 GMT
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I'm looking for a convenient way to determine the accessibility of a
given file on a PC-NFS drive.  I'd like to do this without operator
intervention and with minimum timeout.  Currently, when the connection
to the server is down, the all too familiar message appears:

	Not ready reading drive X
	Abort, Retry, Fail?

Responding 'f' causes my call to access() to report EACCES.  OK fine.
But what if I don't want to be there to type the 'f'?

Can anybody help me out?

Here's our system:

	PC-NFS 3.0.1
	DOS 4.01
	Turbo C 2.0
	386 PC
	EtherLink 3C501
	DEVICE=C:\NFS\PCNFS.SYS /m /i0 /b1 /r4

							Thanks,

							-Mike M

PS: Calls to fopen(), fprintf(), etc. behave similarly.