rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) (06/24/91)
Last week I tried a post of this to comp.os.msdos.misc and didn't get any bites, so here goes. Running two simple DOS apps (FC & FORMAT) I got the omnious error message "Entended error 4" and "Extended error 2". What the heck are these? I RTFM to no avail. Before I spend $$$ calling the Microsoft black hole I ask for the net's help. Don Rubin rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu
snow@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (06/25/91)
In a previous article, rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes: > Running two simple DOS apps (FC & FORMAT) I got the > omnious error message "Entended error 4" and > "Extended error 2". What the heck are these? I RTFM > to no avail. Before I spend $$$ calling the Microsoft > black hole I ask for the net's help. The manual mentions "Extended error" under "Command" in the reference section (MS version, page 385.) This may or may not be your problem. I quote from the manual: /msg Specifies that all error messages should be stored in memory. Usually, some messages are stored only on disk. This switch is useful only if you are running MS-DOS from floppy disks. You must specify the /p switch when you use the /msg switch. -ken
bytehead@bluemoon.uucp (Bryan Price) (06/25/91)
rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes: > Last week I tried a post of this to comp.os.msdos.misc > and didn't get any bites, so here goes. > > Running two simple DOS apps (FC & FORMAT) I got the > omnious error message "Entended error 4" and > "Extended error 2". What the heck are these? I RTFM > to no avail. Before I spend $$$ calling the Microsoft > black hole I ask for the net's help. Are you using 4DOS as a COMMAND.COM replacement, or any other replacement for COMMAND.COM?? If not, are you using the correct COMMAND.COM for 5.0? This is a known problem with 4DOS, as the DOS programs use a part of COMMAND.COM for processing of help and extended errors. If you don't use MS-DOS 5.0 COMMAND.COM, you get exactly what you are describing. > > Don Rubin rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu Bryan L. Price bytehead@bluemoon | bytehead@bluemoon.uucp 1:226/340.1742 Fido