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From: akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (Atul Kacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Strange DOS behavior
Message-ID: <1293@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-May-87 15:44:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: ur-tut.1293
Posted: Fri May  8 15:44:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 20:43:33 EDT
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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Keywords: DOS

I just tried the following on my PC running DOS 3.2.

Inserted a floppy in drive A, which had a write protect tab
on it. Changed the default drive to A> from C>. Then
typed     

A>  TYPE filename.ext | MORE

and I got an error message  

Write protect error writing drive A:

A)bort, R)etry, I)gnore ?

What's going on ?

I am only trying to read from the disk. Am I missing something here ?


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