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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Dumbest DOS in the World!
Keywords: ms-dos, pc-dos, os
Message-ID: <2624@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 15 Jan 91 12:51:01 GMT
References: <278e09fb-2433comp.ibmpc@point.UUCP> <7738@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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akcs.bill@point.UUCP (Bill Wolff) writes:
>the top of my head is changing a disk with an open file will save the old
>directory to the new disk. Another problem is that most things from one

Well - this is not a problem in most cases, but here is a related problem:

	insert a write-protected formatted disk in drive A:
	attempt to copy a file to it - get "Abort, Retry, Ignore"
	switch disk - insert one you can write to.
	press "R" for "Retry"

When you look at the disk you will see that the directory has been
overwritten with the directory of the write-protected disk.

This bug exists in DOS 2.x, and 3.x, but may have been fixed in 4.x - I don't
use it and I haven't tried.

-frisk

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