Something I just thought of..

[effee]

Now, retry speaks for itself, but whats the difference between Abort and Fail. Is one to skip a step and the other to terminate the whole process?

 

[lokiju]

Abort is you give up

Fail is you didn't give up, you just didn't succeed.

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Abort means go back to where you were before the operation was attempted. Fail is give up all together, and stop where you are.

 

[effee]

thanks

 

[skrilla]

from wikipedia:

""A" to abort the operation, "R" to try reading the data again, or "F" to attempt to proceed without the necessary data."

If that helps.

 

[sswingle]

Gotta love dos when it wont read your floppy

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Actually, now that I think about it, fail doesn't mean give up, it means to attempt to proceed without the data it was looking for. (That generally leads to a fatal error, and the operation comes to a screeching halt shortly thereafter... hence my previous statement).

So:

Abort: I give up. I don't want to do anything associated with this operation
Retry: Try again
Fail: Go ahead and try to do the operation anyways