DOS 3.3 feature vaporware?

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From: David P. Zimmerman
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 16:26

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I was looking through my MS-DOS 3.30 manual and found a nifty feature
called "drivparm" that you can stick in your CONFIG.SYS file.
Basically it is supposed to let you change the characteristics of a
block device to another specification (e.g., make an 80 track drive
act like a 40 track).

However, try as I might (and try as another DOS wizard here might),
all that I can get spit out at boot time is a complaint about
"drivparm" being an unrecognized command.

Anybody get this to work, or is this truly nifty feature a truly nifty
vapor?

						dpz
-- 
David P. Zimmerman, Rutgers University Center for Computer and Info Services
Internet: dpz@rutgers.edu     UUCP: rutgers!dpz     Bitnet: zimmerman@zodiac

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From: dpz@athos.rutgers.edu (David P. Zimmerman)
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Subject: DOS 3.3 feature vaporware?
Message-ID: <Apr.12.12.26.22.1988.14955@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 88 16:26:23 GMT
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