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From: psfales@cbnewsc.att.com (Peter Fales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: DRIVPARM: unrecognized command in config.sys
Summary: DRIVPARM is in 3.3, but buggy
Message-ID: <1990Jul1.200527.8301@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 1 Jul 90 20:05:27 GMT
References: <1990Jun27.035428.27845@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <198@sc2a.unige.ch>
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In article <198@sc2a.unige.ch>, fisher@sc2a.unige.ch (Markus Fischer) writes:
> 
> Say, are you *sure* that `drivparm' is a DOS 3.30 command ?  My manual doesn't
> list it at all (IBM DOS 3.30), and my on-line help system tells me it's a
> `DOS 4.0 and up' command...
> 
> On the other hand, the string `DRIVPARM' *is* in my ibmbio.com... hmmm.

DRIVPARM does exist in DOS 3.3, but it is buggy.  To get it to work, you
need to have the character Control-A after the "=" character in the
DRIVPARM line.  For example, my CONFIG.SYS has the line

DRIVPARM=^A/d:1 /f:2

(Where ^A indicates a single character with the numeric value 01)

I think this was fixed in DOS 3.30A.

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