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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disk inserted???
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Date: 10 Oct 88 13:26:27 GMT
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In-reply-to: brown@nicmad.UUCP's message of 9 Oct 88 19:06:17 GMT

In article <55969UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
<Will someone suggest a way to test for the absence of a floppy from
<a BAT file that doesn't generate the Abort, Retry, Ignore message.

In article <3278@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
<With 360K diskette drives, it can't be done.

Sorry, Mr. Video -- this is how you do it:

dskready a:
if errorlevel 12 goto unformatted
if errorlevel 2 goto fool
copy foo a:
goto end
:fool
echo You didn't put a disk in there.
goto end
:unformatted
echo You put an unformatted disk in there.
goto end
:end



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