Re: [Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure.

I could reproduce this. it happens in/after findnext() this error is related to the compiler. if the source is compiled using TurboC 2.01 the error occures. compiling the exact same source with TCPP the error is gone. try www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/findtcpp.com and

Re: [Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure.

Eric, In the three cases (mine and your two suggestions) if DOSLFN is loaded and enabled, there is no sign of a problem. If DOSLFN is not loaded, I get the error. If DOSLFN has been loaded, but I disable it (DOSLFN /D), the error returns. So, DOSLFN seems to "fix" the problem, at least from a

Re: [Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure.

Hi Rugxulo and Troi, >> It could be a rare kernel bug, but my guess is some buffer overflow in the >> IO95 lib. I think this problem is hidden by enabling DOSLFN. > > Yes indeed that did either mask or "fix" the problem. Thanks. In that case please tell in which situations the bug does happen

Re: [Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure.

> It could be a rare kernel bug, but my guess is some buffer overflow in the > IO95 lib. I think this problem is hidden by enabling DOSLFN. Yes indeed that did either mask or "fix" the problem. Thanks. > But I personally just avoid Find and use Xgrep instead. I probably will too as I learn what

Re: [Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure.

Eric, >> C:\ELVIS\DOC>find /i "env" e*.htm >> file list ... >> Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure > > Does the same bug happen with find /i "env" C:e*.htm > and with find /i "env" C:\elvis\doc\e*.htm by the way? Yes it does. I've seen a few posts and such that sound

Re: [Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure.

Hi, On Jan 16, 2017 11:24 AM, "Eric Auer" wrote: > > > C:\ELVIS\DOC>find /i "env" e*.htm > > file list ... > > Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure > > You mean it FIRST checks all files in the current > directory on C: but THEN tries to jump to the A: >

Re: [Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure.

Hi Troi, > C:\ELVIS\DOC>find /i "env" e*.htm > file list ... > Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure You mean it FIRST checks all files in the current directory on C: but THEN tries to jump to the A: drive? That sounds like a bug in the kernel, either in the drive status

[Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure.

I'm curious as to why FreeDOS is trying to read a:. I've built a VM in VirtualBox and most things work well, but while digging around looking for information, I got this after a FIND command. C:\ELVIS\DOC>find /i "env" e*.htm file list ... Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general