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From: Darren Salt
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 00:00

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In article <bfd6a94547@ursaminr.demon.co.uk>
          Peter Smith <polaris@ursaminr.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]
> Ouch! The way I find best was to write a little program that was "ON ERROR
> RUN" followed by "ATAFS" & "DISMOUNT 4".

Why change the currently selected filing system? Surely
	ON ERROR IF ERR=17 THEN QUIT
	*ATAFS:Dismount :4
would be better...

Note the little 'feature' which allows Escape to work properly ;-)

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From: Darren Salt <arcsalt@spuddy.mew.co.uk>
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