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From: snow@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: DOS 5 Extended Errors?
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.230753.234@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 04:07:52 GMT
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In a previous article, rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
> Running two simple DOS apps (FC & FORMAT) I got the
> omnious error message "Entended error 4" and 
> "Extended error 2". What the heck are these? I RTFM
> to no avail. Before I spend $$$ calling the Microsoft
> black hole I ask for the net's help.

The manual mentions "Extended error" under "Command" in the reference
section (MS version, page 385.)  This may or may not be your problem.

I quote from the manual:

    /msg
	Specifies that all error messages should be stored in memory.
	Usually, some messages are stored only on disk.  This switch
	is useful only if you are running MS-DOS from floppy disks.
	You must specify the /p switch when you use the /msg switch.

-ken