Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/03/19/03:15:18
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 2159 is only good for those old DOS functions that don't return the error
> code in AX. For those which do, it doesn't add much info, which is what
> you see.
Not true: when the error code is 0x05 (ACCESS DENIED), I21F59 can return
either 0x05, 0x20, 0x50 or 0x53 as error code (out of my head) which
does tell me more! And that not only for DOS 2.0 functions.
> I guess checking for disk full is so expensive that DOS itself avoids
> doing it, because there is no such error code in the entire list of codes
> in the Interrupt List.
Not that RBIL's list is complete.
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