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Re: virtual drive again

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From: Eugene Mayevski [SecureBlackbox]
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 20:53
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David Scheffel wrote:

> We've already programed a Shell Namespace Extension using "Shell+" and it
> works fine. But we're not able to access the Namespace by an drive letter.

As Remy already answered, you need a device driver for this.
JFUI: we recently analysed the cost and time of writing a device driver 
and in simpliest case (our needs were simple and not involving 
networking) and the cost of driver development is about $20'000 and 4 
months of time.

-- 
Eugene Mayevski
EldoS Corp., CTO
Security and networking solutions
http://www.eldos.com
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