Re: DOS error messages

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From: John Beardmore
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 00:00

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In article <201540917wnr@tarexp.demon.co.uk>
           antwin@tarexp.demon.co.uk "Anthony Winder" writes:

>I'm not sure whether this is the right place for this question - 
>apologies if not.
>
>Does anyone know if it's possible to configure DOS so that disk and 
>printer error messages (e.g. Abort, Retry, Fail) are suppressed on the 
>screen, but logged to a file instead?

I don't know that you can do that simply.

Even if you could, wouldn't he machine wait forever to a response ?

A more conventional strategy is to hook into DOSs critical error handler
I guess. Various books on DOS internals will probably deal with this.

-- 
John Beardmore

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