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Article #6511Re: Normal MSDOS multitasking!
From: Roy M. Silvernail
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:59
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:59
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bern@Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern) writes:
> Another Proof: Try Piping when you "are" currently on a write-protected Flopp
> Will fail with "write Error".
Depends on your command processor. 4dos puts its tempfiles in a single,
known directory on your hard drive. Handy feature, that.
That also means the 'DIR | MORE' example wouldn't be obviously
successful in 4dos, because the tempfiles are likely to be in a
different directory.
--
Roy M. Silvernail -- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu - OR- cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu
"I like Santa Claus as well as the next guy, but do you really want a
hard drive that's spent 6000 miles at the bottom of a canvas sack in a
wooden sleigh powered by airborne reindeer?" -- me
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!cybrspc!roy From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Normal MSDOS multitasking! Message-ID: <NDuwVB6w165w@cybrspc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 22:59:22 CST References: <bern.724451246@kleopatra> Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 16