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From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: Re: MSDOS 5 feature? (How to disable...
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.124016.2152@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 12:40:16 GMT
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android@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andy Wilks) writes:

>The volume serial number has been added so dos can handle
>an unexpected media change.

I only wonder why my disk drive reports every media change :-)

What will Dos take more serious: a modified volume serial number
or a disk change signal from the floppy?
And what will it do with disks formatted using Dos 3.3? I have lots 
of such disks (a few hundred!!)
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