Re: Windows DOS box is lying to me

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From: Richard Clayton
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 21:00

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In article <787151225snz@turnpike.com>
           richard@turnpike.com "Richard Clayton" writes:

>i have seen many discussions of this....  what you need is a summary
>of the conclusions reached, which you can find in and amongst the
>FAQs on Garbo. I'm sorry I can't point you more directly at this
>information - my filing system cannot dig it up :(  Perhaps someone
>else recalls the material I mean ?

and replying to myself ..    garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/tspost00.zip
contains a pointer to :

         BATRICKS.TXT Assorted batch tricks and tips
         DOSTRICK.TXT Assorted MsDos tricks and tips
         in garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsbat46.zip

       # 4)  Checking whether a directory exists

and I expect all the other stuff will be of interest too.

richard
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