Microsoft KB Archive/78505

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No Warning Beep with MS-DOS 4.x, 5.0 BACKUP Utility

Article ID: 78505

Article Last Modified on 10/16/2003



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft MS-DOS 4.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 4.01 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Standard Edition



This article was previously published under Q78505

SUMMARY

When using the BACKUP.EXE utility from MS-DOS versions 3.x or earlier, a single short beep will occur before the message warning that the target drive will be erased. With MS-DOS versions 4.x and later, there is no beep before the warning message is displayed. This is by design.


Additional query words: 4.0 4.00 4.01 4.01a 5.00 image

Keywords: KB78505