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From: meyer@suna5.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: One more 4DOS problem?
Message-ID: <21700004@suna5>
Date: 9 Feb 90 17:42:00 GMT
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Nf-From: suna5.cs.uiuc.edu!meyer    Feb  8 17:56:00 1990


>	Check your CONFIG.SYS file for a line that says BREAK = OFF, and
>that should tell you weather you can break *.BAT easily.  Because BREAK is
>OFF, MS-DOS will not allow you to interrupt disk i/o operations, which is
>primarily what a batch file is.

There is no "BREAK=OFF" line in my config.sys.  However, the default value
for BREAK when not specified is OFF.  Maybe this is the problem with 4DOS
as well?

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   Don Meyer			Internet:  dlmeyer@uiuc.edu
   disclaimer:     How could UIUC policy possibly agree with me?  I'm too sane.
   quote du jour: "If, indeed, there exists Artificial Intelligence,
		     then there must also exist Artificial Stupidity"