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"Andrue Cope [TeamB]" <no.spam@not.a.valid.address> schrieb:

>What a curious request. No version of Builder can create a real DOS
>application.

I know, but I wrote a console-tool for BCB, which should also be
compilable by BC50 for creating pure DOS programs (instead of
console-program).  

>Anyway have you tried calling ScUNCFromLocalPath() to see if the UNC
>path sees 'through' the drive substitution?

I just tried it with BCB:

  char str[256];
  SCODE s=ScUNCFromLocalPath("T:\\", str, sizeof(str));

with z:\\ being set in the DOS-BOX with 

  SUBST T: C:\

but I got a strange message when executing

Either there exists no standard-mail-client or the current mail-client
can't fullfill the messaging reuqest. Please execute Microsoft Outllok
and define it as standard-mail-client. [TRANSLATED]

instead of delivering
  
  "C:\\" inside str.

Trying to use this in BC50 results in some compiler-errors when
including mapiutil.h: 
  pshpack8.h: Error directive: 8-byte-packing is not supported!
I'm not sure it makes sense to dive into trying to get it run, because
this function does not deliver the intended under windows, as shown
above...

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I finally found the function 

      QueryDosDevice()

which really does what I want, but unfortunately only under windows.

Isn't there really no way to get the same under DOS?

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Thanks a lot,

Michael