Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!chalmers!johnsson
From: johnsson@chalmers.UUCP (Thomas Johnsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: "abort, retry, or ignore?" : help needed
Message-ID: <2358@chalmers.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 88 09:41:58 GMT
Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden
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I'm in dire need of some help from the PCDOS expertise out there ...

When issuing a read or a write to a diskette station or the printer
and the output unit in question is not ready (e.g. the diskette
station has its gate open, or the the power to the printer is off),
one get the message on the screen

    device not ready: abort, retry, or ignore?

Now I would like to disable this, and simply let the read or write
operation return with an error indication.  (I'm using the DOS file
handle operations, if that's of any help.)

Had any one out there in netland succeded in this?
Help would be greatly appreciated!

-- 
Thomas Johnsson 
UUCP:  johnsson@chalmers.uucp,  CSNET: johnsson@chalmers.csnet
Dept. of CS, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Goteborg, Sweden
phone: dept: +46 (0)31 721040.