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From: rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: DOS PROMPT command and disk drive
Message-ID: <1479@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 10:22:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1479
Posted: Mon Jun 17 10:22:31 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Jun-85 03:33:16 EDT
References: <547@alberta.UUCP>
Reply-To: rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.)
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <547@alberta.UUCP> andrew@alberta.UUCP (Andrew Folkins) writes:

>With this prompt, the command 'a:' activates the floppy drive.  When, by
>mistake, I did this with no floppy in the drive, the cursor homed, and the
>'drive not ready' message printed. Upon entering 'a' for abort, the cursor
>homed again while the drive spun some more, then the 'drive not ready'
>message was repeated.  The only way to get out of the loop was to
>reset the machine. 
> 

It seems to me that when you abort, DOS quits the current operation and
returns you to the command line........which requires that the prompt be
run again...and again...and again............


Rick Sellens
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