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From: darmon@polaris.UUCP
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Subject: Re: dir /w
Message-ID: <721@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 21:07:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: polaris.721
Posted: Wed Sep 17 21:07:24 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Sep-86 02:21:16 EDT
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Reply-To: darmon@polaris.UUCP (Pierre Darmon)
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In article <2029@ecsvax.UUCP> harris@ecsvax.UUCP (Mark Harris) writes:
>I find that after I run certain programs the '/w' parameter for 'dir'
>is no longer recognized by DOS 3.0.  No other damage that I can find.
>Has anyone else run into this?  Know how to fix the problem? 

This is a known bug. Somehow DOS does not detect that command.com has been
overwritten and does not reload it. That's because it only checks for a few
bytes and they are not the one affected. 

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Pierre Darmon, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.                        
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