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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Drive ?: not ready.
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.095505.23517@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se>
Date: 3 Oct 90 09:55:05 GMT
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In article <SO-ECS.90Oct2153515@stekt.oulu.fi> so-ecs@stekt.oulu.fi (Juha Ruotsalainen ti) writes:
>How can I prevent the system from showing the full screen error msg
>when I try to read from some floppy drive which is empty. This is of
>course under PM. Thank you.

I you have OS/2 1.2, you should put the line "AUTOFAIL=YES" (or was it
"SET AUTOFAIL=YES").  Is documented in the on line command reference anyhow.

Or if you write your own application, you should set BIT 13 in the open mode
flag. 

Mikael Wahlgren      d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se