22 Jun
2001
22 Jun
'01
10:39 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Eventually, MICROS~1 had to "fix the problems
with DBLSPACE". They
came out with DOS 6.20. They implemented a long feature wish list of
reliability related features, including things like asking for
confirmation before over-writing an existing file. They also "fixed
DBLSPACE".
Gawd I hated that...having to confirm that YES, I REALLY DO WANT TO DELETE
THIS FARQING FILE DAMN IT! Eventually I just put a COPYCMD=/Y (or
something like that) in my CONFIG.SYS file which forced the equivalent of
a /Y option (effectively, do not confirm) to any command that could
overwrite/delete files and the problem was solved.
Stupid Microsoft.
If you never turned off the machine prematurely, and
never had an
unrecoverable write error, then you might never have experienced the
problems. You were lucky.
I realized early on it was ripe for trouble so I automatically disabled
it.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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