5 Jan
2005
5 Jan
'05
9:34 a.m.
On Jan 5 2005, 14:27, Fred Cisin wrote:
QDOS?
Dunno, I don't have quite such old versions :-) My old copy of "The
MS-DOS Bible" says "every version" -- it means 3.30 and older --
disallows binary reads from devices. The same message is at 5254 in
MS-DOS 3.30 (ditto in PC-DOS 3.30), at 4CA0 in 3.21, and 4CCC in
IBM-DOS 4.01 (from a Compaq). I can't read my MS-DOS 2.10 and 2.11
disks on the hardware I have here. "Binary reads from a device are not
allowed" is the message at 8753 in DR-DOS 3.41.
All the ones that I could boot (ie all but 2.10/2.11) print the message
and then exit when you try COPY /B CON: dummy .
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
> > In the case of DOS 6.22, the message
"Cannot do binary reads from
a
>
device" is at offset 970F in COMMAND.COM
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Tom Jennings
wrote:
Sheesh, it only took them 10 years to declare it
impossible and
test for the error.
Well, ...
in DOS 4.00, it is at offset 7CCC. It may have been there since