Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!amdcad!pepsi!ching From: ching@pepsi.amd.com (Mike Ching) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Disk Driver Formatting in Message-ID: <27569@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 30 Sep 89 00:45:09 GMT References: <89090607413782@masnet.uucp> <14789@netnews.upenn.edu> <282@bmers58.UUCP> Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM Reply-To: ching@pepsi.AMD.COM (Mike Ching) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA Lines: 18 In article <282@bmers58.UUCP> mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord) writes: >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: Isn't the DOS equivalent to ^C a ^C? I believe this carried over from CPM. mike ching