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The OP is *NOT* using DOS, no way! All versions of DOS RMDIR would fail when the target directory has any files in it, besides not accepting either /s or /q... he/she must be using the DOS-box of a NT-Family OS for the described script (notice he/she didn't say "batch file", either) to work. Under true DOS, DELTREE would be required.

Attached to this post is a blank image of a 320 KiB floppy obtained by formatting a 5.25" DS/DD floppy under PC-DOS 1.10. It has two interesting features, discontinued in later versions: a real bootable bootsector (which I modified, for it to be acceptable for WinImage, by adding a short-version BPB and the final Magic Bytes, in place of the original zeroes that bootsector had) and the way it initializes the directory (every blank entry is 0xE5 followed by 31 0xF6). Differently from later versions, PC-DOS 1.10's SYS.COM does not touch the boot sector, and does not transfer COMMAND.COM (that came much later, with DOS 5.0). KB66530 and the Starman's pages (at least this and this) are relevant as further reading, for those interested. Blank320Mod.7z

I think the best bet is to modify the .inf for USB connection provided for 98SE for the Stylus C-83 (you can get it from Epson Australia). The C-83 is able to connect either through a conventional Parallel Port or through USB (I think it's one of the last printers that is able to do so), but its production was discontinued some years ago.

Well, Mr Loew, I've just downloaded and this one works properly for me. Joe. Hi, Joe! I'm glad the latest installment of RLoew's patch worked OK for you. But, just for completeness, would you please post the output of partsx while using it? Thanks in advance!

Yes. The new version works beautifully! You may remove the previous one.

with: N:\>oview_bs noname.bs noname.bs EB 27 90 03 01 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 02 01 00 Jump_Bytes: EB2790 02 70 00 80 02 FF 01 00 08 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 OEM_String: "........" 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 CD 19 FA 8C C8 8E D8 33 D2 Bytes_per_Sector: 512 8E D2 BC 00 7C FB B8 60 00 8E D8 8E C0 33 D2 8B Sectors_per_Cluster: 2 C2 CD 13 72 69 E8 85 00 72 DD 2E 83 3E 03 7C 08 Reserved_Sectors: 1 74 06 2E C6 06 64 7D 02 BB 00 00 2E 8B 0E 03 7C Number_of_FATs: 2 51 B0 09 2A C1 B4 00 8B F0 56 33 D2 33 C0 8A C5 Max_Root_Entries: 112 2E F6 36 64 7D 8A E8 8A F4 8B C6 B4 02 CD 13 72 Small_Type_Sectors: 640 2D 5E 59 2E 29 36 05 7C 74 1F 8B C6 2E F7 26 65 Media_Type: 255 7D 03 D8 FE C5 B1 01 51 BE 08 00 2E 3B 36 05 7C Sectors_per_Fat: 1 7C 05 2E 8B 36 05 7C EB C0 EA 00 00 60 00 BE 67 Sectors_per_Head: 8 7D E8 02 00 EB FE 32 FF 2E AC 24 7F 74 0B 56 B4 Sectors_Before: 0 0E BB 07 00 CD 10 5E EB EF C3 E9 33 FF BB 00 00 Large_Sectors: 0 B9 04 00 B8 01 02 CD 13 1E 72 33 8C C8 8E D8 BF Disk_Number: 0 00 00 B9 0B 00 26 80 0D 20 26 80 4D 20 20 47 E2 Current_head: 0 F4 BF 00 00 BE 8B 7D B9 0B 00 FC F3 A6 75 0F BF NT_Signature: 0 20 00 BE 97 7D B9 0B 00 F3 A6 75 02 1F C3 BE 1B Volume_Serial: CD19FA8C 7D E8 A2 FF B4 00 CD 16 1F F9 C3 0D 0A 4E 6F 6E Volume_Label: "3.|" 2D 53 79 73 74 65 6D 20 64 69 73 6B 20 6F 72 20 System_ID: "`.3" 64 69 73 6B 20 65 72 72 6F 72 0D 0A 52 65 70 6C Magic_bytes: 55AA 61 63 65 20 61 6E 64 20 73 74 72 69 6B 65 20 61 6E 79 20 6B 65 79 20 77 68 65 6E 20 72 65 61 64 79 0D 0A 00 01 00 02 0D 0A 44 69 73 6B 20 42 6F 6F 74 20 66 61 69 6C 75 72 65 0D 0A 00 4D 69 63 72 6F 73 6F 66 74 2C 49 6E 63 20 69 62 6D 62 69 6F 20 20 63 6F 6D 30 69 62 6D 64 6F 73 20 20 63 6F 6D 30 05 C6 06 77 2F FF 83 7E FC 00 75 0B 80 7E F7 3B 75 05 C6 06 76 2F FF 89 EC 5D CA 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA All other forms also work, of course (but I tested them, all the same). Here's noname.bs, just in case: noname.7z

Now, using instead: IF NOT EXIST %1 GOTO :ERROR1 FOR /F "tokens=3" %%A IN ('DIR "%~1"^|FIND /I "%~1"') DO IF NOT %%A==512 GOTO :ERROR2 I get: N:\>eview_bs noname.bs noname.bs 2 File "N:\noname.bs" does not exist or is not 512 bytes in size 2! Press any key to continue . . . Terminate batch job (Y/N)? y All the other forms work, obviously, since they already did before... N:\>DIR noname.bs Volume in drive N is RamDisk Volume Serial Number is 1234-5678 Directory of N:\ 28/01/2012 04:49 PM 512 noname.bs 1 File(s) 512 bytes 0 Dir(s) 804,265,984 bytes free

with: but it shouldn't make any difference . Yet it does: N:\>nview_bs n:\noname.bs n:\noname.bs File "n:\noname.bs" does not exist or is not 512 bytes in size ! Press any key to continue . . . Terminate batch job (Y/N)? y N:\>nview_bs N:\noname.bs N:\noname.bs File "N:\noname.bs" does not exist or is not 512 bytes in size ! Press any key to continue . . . Terminate batch job (Y/N)? y N:\>nview_bs .\noname.bs .\noname.bs File "N:\noname.bs" does not exist or is not 512 bytes in size ! Press any key to continue . . . Terminate batch job (Y/N)? y N:\>nview_bs \noname.bs \noname.bs File "N:\noname.bs" does not exist or is not 512 bytes in size ! Press any key to continue . . . Terminate batch job (Y/N)? y N:\>nview_bs noname.bs noname.bs File "N:\noname.bs" does not exist or is not 512 bytes in size ! Press any key to continue . . . Terminate batch job (Y/N)? y

Great! Thanks! Bug report: N:\>view_bs N:\noname.bs => works as expected. N:\>view_bs n:\noname.bs => works as expected. N:\>view_bs .\noname.bs => works as expected. N:\>view_bs \noname.bs => works as expected. But... N:\>view_bs noname.bs => gives instead: noname.bs File "N:\noname.bs" does not exist or is not 512 bytes in size ! Press any key to continue . . . You need to supply a target bootsector to view! view_bs.cmd - small batch file to view BPB data of bootsectors by jaclaz - version 0.01 ALPHA Usage: view_bs.cmd <FAT1x bootsector file> Examples: view_bs.cmd test_01.bs view_bs.cmd C:\BS_tests\test_01.bs view_bs.cmd "C:\A stoopidly long path containing spaces\a stoopid file name.bs" Target bootsector file MUST be 512 bytes in size. Press any key to continue . . . N:\> noname.bs is a bootsector, and is exactly 512 bytes long. N: is a 768 MiB gavotte ramdisk OS: Win XP SP3 Now, just in case: C:\>view_bs noname.bs noname.bs File "C:\noname.bs" does not exist or is not 512 bytes in size ! Press any key to continue . . . <etc.>

Here's an interesting read: All Those Floppy Disk Formats… by Tim Paterson himself. And it's on-topic too, because it confirms 10 sectors per track is the absolute maximum for Double-Density floppies. There is a controverse point in it, however, because there Tim says that the 9-sector formats were already present in PC-DOS 1.1, which not only contradicts Undocumented DOS (as pointed out in the last comment there by os2museum) and the table by Thom Hogan I posted above, but is, in fact, a mistake, verifiable by simply running PC-DOS 1.1 format, which can only format 160 k and 320 k floppies. The 9-sector formats really were introduced with PC-DOS 2.0, and not before, although I do believe Tim's statement that they knew it was viable perhaps since PC-DOS 1.0 times.

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@jaclaz: I just found some minor mistakes in Known_floppies.xls: The 320k formats use 1 (not 2) sectors per FAT-12, and the 360K uses 2 (not 3) sectors per FAT-12. All FAT-12 formats above 180k and below 1.2 M use 2 sectors per cluster. The Table below is quoted from Thom Hogan's "The Programmer's PC Sourcebook", 1st. ed., Microsoft Press, 1988 (ISBN 1-55615-118-7) Section 2, p. 61.

Rick, if you want a window into Win 9x memory, do add Japheth's VWin32 to your system: it's small, works in real-time, doesn't impair stability, and gives lots of info for its small size. It may help you figure out what's happening.

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Yes. I think you can safely omit the *._p

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No. KernelEx is not for drivers.

The Complete List of Hotfixes, Updates, and Addons for Win 98 SE Versionsmatrix Win 98SE KB-Artikel für Win 98SE Comprehensive listing of Win 98SE Updates This is what info I know for Win 98 SE (I don't know any similar lists for the other members of the 9x/ME family, but they may exist). Some of these updates/hotfixes never were released as PT-BR (nor as PT-PT), and some only as PT-PT (not as PT-BR). YMMV. But these lists should be a good starting point for you.

Sure. The deltas are for creating the QFE version. It's a way to save space, as the QFE contain just a bunch of bytes that differ from the GDR, and the deltas simply record which bytes should be changed and how to change them... they are patch patterns.

Glad to hear it! All best wishes for you and yours in the new home! And thanks for changing your mind: your presence with us and your contributions to the community are much appreciated!

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