From: gfrajkor AT rideau DOT carleton DOT ca (George Frajkor)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.os.msdos.4dos,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.mail-news,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: DoubleSpace problem, OpenDOS
Date: 21 Mar 1997 02:32:05 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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Summary: DoubleSpace, OpenDOS, Stacker 4, CHKDSK
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In article <1997Mar18 DOT 162018 DOT 5793 AT news>,
Gautier <Gautier DOT deMontmollin AT Maths DOT UniNe DOT CH> wrote:

 re: CHKDSK, Scandisk not working with Stacker 4

>But CHKDSK/F works, even if there is a message recommending SCANDISK !
>(at least in M$-DOS 6.22)

     Yes I was informed by someone else, thankfully, that although it
is not mentioned in the Stacker manuals or tech hints, and although
CHKDSK does not ask you for a y/n answer, you CAN , in fact, answer NO
when CHKDSK recommends Scandisk, after which CHKDSK /F will go ahead
and do its job.  Obviously, Microsoft did not let CHKDSK offer you the
choice even if that choice is there.  

  However, my own workaround-- which is borrowing the CHKDSK program
from Novell Dos or Opendos, does the job without frustrating you and
without asking questions. I have the impression that Scandisk is
really  Novell's CHKDSK in drag, and with hostility to anything but
Microsoft thrown in.

    I thank those who replied and helped me out on the CHKDSK problem.

gfrajkor AT ccs DOT carleton DOT ca