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From: martin@iastate.edu (Calsyn Martin Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Help with Dos write protect error
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.175330.14936@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 17:53:30 GMT
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In article <351.27EC635A@business.UUCP> Mark.Tutt@f88.n363.z1.fidonet.org (Mark Tutt) writes:

> bla> ...  My problem stems
> bla> from the fact that I get a write protect error Abort, Retry, Ignore? 
> bla> message

You could eliminate this message for other nasty DOS errors like drive
not ready, data error, media failure, etc by intercepting the DOS
critical error handler - I believe its DOS INT 24H.  This interupt is
available in more recent (3.30+) versions of MS-DOS.

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