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Article #5106Re: Help: Finding legal drives on system
From: Jim Nelson
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 01:47
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 01:47
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In article <3815@ac.dal.ca> merrett@ac.dal.ca writes: >Is there any way of checking for 'legal' drives on a particular system, in >C, without actually having to read from the drive? (i.e. I don't want it >plopping that 'insert floppy' message in the middle of my pretty windows) About the only way to do it is to check the biosequip word for number of floppies. I don't know it's memory address at the moment, but TC has a function to find it for you, then you do a little bit manipulation to do the rest. -- .sig? What .sig? Ohhhh, *THIS* .sig. Jim, in the Land of the Lost. disclaimer: These are just opinions. If you want 'em, you can have 'em.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!ogicse!plains!jnelson From: jnelson@plains.NoDak.edu (Jim Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Help: Finding legal drives on system Message-ID: <8795@plains.NoDak.edu> Date: 11 Mar 91 01:47:44 GMT References: <3815@ac.dal.ca> Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND Lines: 14