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Business Definition for: Abort, Retry, Fail?

Abort, Retry, Fail?

an error message displayed by DOS and similar operating systems when a disk is unreadable or some other input or output operation is physically impossible. An earlier version said, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

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