On Mon, 31 May 2021, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote:
+1
Personally, I always thought it would be best to have this "phantom
drive" feature disabled by default and allow the user to enable it if
they need. But that's just me. :)
Personally, I'd go with the opposite: behavior compatible with MS-DOS 3.3
ought to be the default because it's what most people would expect from
software that has as its primary compatibility target Compaq MS-DOS 3.31
(not sure if that's still accurate, it's certainly been a long time since
I checked).
But with that said:
1. Allowing it to be disabled isn't a bad idea. (I'd go with SWITCHES=/B
personally, but there's other options too.)
2. One could say that's what something like DRIVER.SYS is supposed to be
for...and indeed, a virtual floppy drive created with DRIVER.SYS under
MS-DOS or PC-DOS will trigger the "Insert diskette for drive X: and press
a key when ready..." prompt, just like the virtual B drive.
-uso.
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