Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!parc!biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!panda From: sam thurston Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: re: my previous mscd0001 request Date: 19 Apr 1994 05:58:14 GMT Organization: U of Iowa Panda System Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <766735193-0-8935@chop.isca.uiowa.edu> Reply-To: negative@chop.isca.uiowa.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: chop.isca.uiowa.edu well, i have recieved substanial feed back to ask a question on this matter. apparently mscd0001 is not a file, although i'll swear on a stack of manuals that i deleted it. funny. well, anyway the reason i continue to believe it's a file is because i used MSDOS help on the command MSCDEX.EXE. in the syntax, i THINK it says that one of the switches is: /d[driver] or something to that effect. anyway the switch matched precisely the one in my autoexec.bat under mscdex [bunch of stuff i forgot] /d:MSCD0001 somebody help me on whateverkmy misconception is. needless to say, of course, the drive is inoperative. oh yeah, just remembered. when debugging it, i found an "unusual message" during the autoexec sequence. cannot find 'MSCD0001' that's all i can remember now. HELLLLLLLP!!!!!