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From: ger@qtecmuc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Strange DOS behavior - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 11-May-87 06:25:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 11 06:25:00 1987
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	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:

Unfortunately Pipes (prog1 | prog2) are handled as:
prog1 >tempfile
prog2 <tempfile
im MS-DOS,
since there is no multitasking mechanism there.
The tempfile is created in the root of the current (I think) drive.
Thats the reason for the 'write protect'-error.