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Article #7326Re: DOS 5 Extended Errors?
From: Bryan Price
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 16:40
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 16:40
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rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
> Last week I tried a post of this to comp.os.msdos.misc
> and didn't get any bites, so here goes.
>
> Running two simple DOS apps (FC & FORMAT) I got the
> omnious error message "Entended error 4" and
> "Extended error 2". What the heck are these? I RTFM
> to no avail. Before I spend $$$ calling the Microsoft
> black hole I ask for the net's help.
Are you using 4DOS as a COMMAND.COM replacement, or any other replacement
for COMMAND.COM?? If not, are you using the correct COMMAND.COM for 5.0?
This is a known problem with 4DOS, as the DOS programs use a part of
COMMAND.COM for processing of help and extended errors. If you don't use
MS-DOS 5.0 COMMAND.COM, you get exactly what you are describing.
>
> Don Rubin rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu
Bryan L. Price bytehead@bluemoon | bytehead@bluemoon.uucp
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