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From: rde@ukc.ac.uk (R.D.Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DRIVPARM config.sys variable - how do I access it?
Keywords: PC-DOS 3.30,DRIVPARM,config.sys
Message-ID: <238@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Feb 89 10:25:16 GMT
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Reply-To: rde@ukc.ac.uk (R.D.Eager)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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I did post this before, but I fear it got lost....

There is a simple way of making DRIVPARM work, at least on PC-DOS 3.3 (I have
tried it and it works). It is *extremely* baroque, but who cares?

Place three control-A characters (yes, the ASCII value 1) into the line
after the DRIVPARM= bit, before the parameters. If we represent CONTROL-A
as ^A, the line might look like this:

     DRIVPARM=^A^A^A/D:n /F:n   ... etc

I don't know why it works, but it sure does!
-- 
           Bob Eager
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