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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:08:14 +0000
From: J P Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>
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Subject: dev\clock$ works in Windows95 (was: disk devices)
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-= ArkanoiD =- wrote:
> 
> nuqneH,
> 
> > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:56:46 +0000
> > From: J P Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>
> > Organization: IT-HE
> > Subject: Re: disk devices (was ls, killing disk 0)
> 

> > > You _can_ destroy your CMOS contents by writing to /dev/clock$
> > > (i have that done once: i was curious what happens if you write to
> > > /dev/clock$ and that was _my_ problem when that happened,not an OS
> > > "misfeature") ,so /dev/clock$ is evil?
> >
> > What OS did you do this with??
> 
> DOS. I think it was MS DOS 5.0 or PC DOS 7.0.

Yes.  This _does_ work, but only with Windows 95 (possibly with earlier
versions of MSDOS).  It isn't likely to be added to OpenDOS until we
find something that breaks without it..

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