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Re: DRIVPARM: unrecognized command in config.sys

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From: RAMontante
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 1990 13:41
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<198@sc2a.unige.ch>, fisher@sc2a.unige.ch (Markus Fischer) writes:
> Say, are you *sure* that `drivparm' is a DOS 3.30 command ?  My manual doesn't
> list it at all (IBM DOS 3.30), and my on-line help system tells me it's a
> `DOS 4.0 and up' command...

psfales@cbnewsc.att.com (Peter Fales) <1990Jul1.200527.8301@cbnewsc.att.com> :
| DRIVPARM does exist in DOS 3.3, but it is buggy.  To get it to work, you
| need to have the character Control-A after the "=" character in the
	[ example omitted ]


For what it's worth, DRIVPARM is documented in Zenith's release of MSDOS
v3.21, and it works without needing the CTRL-A.  I suppose it's in
Zenith's v3.30 and up, as well.

As always, you *have* to consider whose release of DOS you're using, as
well as which numeric version.
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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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Subject: Re: DRIVPARM: unrecognized command in config.sys
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Date: 2 Jul 90 13:41:56 GMT
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