The Fforce(2,-1) bug was fixed in a later version of TOS (I know it works
in TOS 4.04, it may have worked in 4.02). MiNT never had a problem with
this code, since it handles Fforce itself.
Of course, if Fforce(2,Fopen("CON:",2)) always works, I see no reason not
to use it :-).