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Re: how to access getnetworkdriveslist

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From: Jeff Kish
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:46
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:59:19 -0700, Bob Gonder
<notbg@notmindspring.invalid> wrote:

>Jeff Kish wrote:
>
>>When I make a call to void GetNetworkDrivesList(LPSTR szSymbol);, the
>>compiler can't see it. So of course I grepped the include files and
>>found msdetect.h, and included it. 
>>Now the linker can't find it.
>
>At the top of that header file is the line:
>// Imported functions from MSDETSTF.DLL
>
>Which means you need to either dynamically link to the DLL, or create
>a LIB from it (IMPLIB I believe) and add that to your link.
>
>>What should I do? I assumed that things like that were in the standard
>>libraries you link to when you create an application or service
>>application.
>
>Well, yeah, but it doesn't seem to be a "standard" function. I can't
>find reference to it on MSDN.  Where'd you find the docs on it?
>
>
I found the reference in the help for the windows sdk from cbuilder 6
Are there any other ways of achieving what I am attempting?

Thanks,
Jeff
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