LA>   > FCBS=16,8
 LA>    Set this to "8,4"

 ML> Nonsense.  Programmers of old DOS programs used FCBs long after
 ML> DOS 1.x came out, even though the documentation told them not to (who
 ML> reads the docs?).  What to set FCBS= depends on which DOS programs you
 ML> are running, not what version of DOS they were written under (something
 ML> you have no way of knowing unless you wrote them ).

LE> Actually, I seem to recall hearing that MS-DOS has dropped support for
  > FCBS as of version 6 or 7. I know they've been *warning* programmers
  > since version 5 (or earlier) that those functions where not to be used,
  > because they'd be dropped at some future time.


   This is the usual case of MS's "Do as I say, not as I do", since 
   Command.Com continues to use FCBs for fast directlry deletions, 
   just as I do.


                                       LRA


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