[Coco] Re: Re: Hard Drive Problems

[Boisy G. Pitre]

On Jun 21, 2004, at 11:42 PM, Frederick D Provoncha wrote:


> Okay, time for another update everyone:

>

> The program 'dskwrite' that Willard shared with me doesn't seem to 

> work.

> I'm getting 'No Permission' errors every time I run it. The reason 

> didn't

> take long to figure out. When the program prompts the user to enter the

> name of the disk to write to, I enter "/d0". The program then tries, in

> the second OPEN statement, to open a path to a file named "/d0". That 

> of

> course is the root directory, not a file, and you can't write to a

> directory, so that triggers a 'No Permission' error. I don't think

> there's anything I can do about that.


There is... instead of typing /d0, type: /d0@

That should make it work.

Boisy