Subj : DIR on an empty CD-ROM drive under 4DOS 7.01A
To   : All
From : Dan McMullin
Date : Thu Mar 21 2002 04:25 pm

From: Dan McMullin <dtales@eudoramail.com>

Greetings, all.

Prior to the release of 4DOS 7.01A (54), issuing a DIR command on my CD-ROM 
drive (R: in my system) when there's no disc present in the tray yields what I 
consider to be the expected result:

        Drive not ready--close door
        R(etry), I(gnore), F(ail), or A(bort)?

Under 7.01A, I get the following result:

        Volume in drive R is unlabeled

Nothing else is displayed.  No "0 bytes in 0 files" or anything similar.  The 
@READY[] function properly returns a value of 0 indicating that 4DOS does 
indeed know that no disc is present.  So why is 7.01A giving me what I consider 
to be a somewhat misleading result with DIR?  Is this what JPSoft calls a 
"feature" or is it what I call a bug?

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 * Origin: Mach2 Systems (1:342/3)

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