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From: platt@emory.UUCP (Dan Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Strange DOS behavior
Message-ID: <2050@emory.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-May-87 00:58:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: emory.2050
Posted: Mon May 11 00:58:07 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 13-May-87 01:36:14 EDT
References: <1293@ur-tut.UUCP>
Reply-To: platt@emory.UUCP (Dan Platt)
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta
Lines: 12
Keywords: DOS

In article <1293@ur-tut.UUCP> akk2@ur-tut.UUCP writes:
>I just tried
	(on dos3.2 using a pipe on a write protected disk).
>...Changed the default drive to A> from C>. Then
>              A>  TYPE filename.ext | MORE
>and I got an error message  
>Write protect error writing drive A:
>A)bort, R)etry, I)gnore ?

Yes, you are missing something: the pipes construct temorary files which
are then sent to "more" and other filters.  These temporary files appear in
the default drive which in this case was write protected.