Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!gvgpsa!gvgspd!mrk
From: mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM (Michael R. Kesti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: "abort, retry, or ignore?" : help needed
Message-ID: <453@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 88 01:37:02 GMT
References: <2358@chalmers.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM (Michael R. Kesti)
Organization: The Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
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In article <2358@chalmers.UUCP> johnsson@chalmers.UUCP (Thomas Johnsson) writes:

>[under some conditions] one gets 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.

The 10 NOV 87 issue of PC Magazine presents this topic in the Productivity
section.  It presents a program called SAFARI (Stay Away From Abort Retry or
Ignore.  Get it from their BBS's at 212-696-0360 or 415-598-9100.  (BTW,
does anyone else think that the PC Mag board has a screwy menu structure?)

				Michael

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