Path: utzoo!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bmers58!mlord
From: mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disk Driver Formatting in
Message-ID: <282@bmers58.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 89 19:47:59 GMT
References: <89090607413782@masnet.uucp> <14789@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <14789@netnews.upenn.edu> catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Tony Catone) writes:
>In article <89090607413782@masnet.uucp> jf.messier@canremote.uucp (JF MESSIER) writes:
>>first diskette I read in this drive via aDIR command will have the 
>>proper directory, but any other diskette read later will give me the 
>>SAME directory as the first one, even if it's another. It seems that DOS
>
>By the way, yes, I know, running chkdsk each time is also a pain, but
>maybe you can pretend you've got a CP/M system again, and treat it like
>typing Ctrl-C ;-)

The DOS equivalent to ^C is merely typing the drive letter with a colon
and then hitting enter.  This forces DOS to reread directory/FAT info 
from the diskette.  Ie.  type     A:

I do this whenever swapping floppies, to prevent DOS from getting confused.
Most of the time it would not matter, but I do it anyway.

-Mark