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Re: Find All Drives On System

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From: Brett Jones
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1991 22:10
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bytor@milton.u.washington.edu (Jill Patterson) writes:

> 
> 	Does anyone know of any easy way to find all the drives available
> on a system.  These could also be Network drives.  I was thinking about
> doing a change drive to all 26 letters and seeing if the function fails
> or not, but there must be a better way.  Also how do you distinguish a
> net drive from a drive thats located physically in the computer.
> 
> THX in Adv
> 	
> -----------
> bytor@milton.u.washington.edu

Jill,

     Get a copy of "Undocumented Dos".  It goes through this problem quite
thoroughly.

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