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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 13:56:17 -0500
To: Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>
From: Takashi Toyooka <ttoyooka AT verisim DOT com>
Subject: Re: [opendos] My installation story
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At 10:15 1997/02/03 -0800, Gene Buckle wrote:
>>  * I found it annoying that fdisk did some kind of surface scan
>>    without any kind of prompting, and no apparent way of skipping
>>    it.
>
>It wasn't doing a surface scan per se.  It was formatting the partition
>for you. ;)
>
Of course!  Only now do I realize that I didn't do a format /s c:!  I
wasn't expecting fdisk (or whatever the OpenDOS program was called) to
format it for me.

>>  * I've had problems switching TASKMGR tasks with the Ctrl-number
>>    keystroke.  [snip]
>
>I belive Ctrl-<Keypad #> works.
>
Hmm.  I thought I tried that, but I'll try again.  Thanks.

Takashi