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From: David Polansky
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 1991 15:59

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I am writing an application which will be reading from diskettes quite
frequently.  On systems which have only one diskette drive I don't want
the message requeting that the user insert the diskette in drive B (or A)
and then push any key to continue to mess up my display.  Is there any way 
to intercept this message.  If not I know how to detect that there is only
one diskette drive.  Is there some way to determine whether it is considered
drive A or drive B at the time the program starts?  (The optimal solution is
to trap the message and deal with it from there.)  Thanks for any help.

David Polansky (dp@cray.com)

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From: dp@hemlock.cray.com (David Polansky)
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Subject: insert diskette in drive B
Keywords: diskette, drive
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Date: 14 Feb 91 15:59:20 GMT
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