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Article #1204Re: Available drives on the system
From: Greg Forney bigred
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:05
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:05
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Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM News-Software: UReply 3.0 X-X-From: bigred@vnet.ibm.com (Greg Forney) References: <1992Aug21.215508.17242@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> In <1992Aug21.215508.17242@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> Srinivas Savaram writes: >HI: > >I need to find out the hardware configuration of the machine from my program. >I need to know what kind of floppy drives are present on the system. >Is there a hard disk available. IF yes, then what are the different >partitions. I also need to know if there are two floppy drives or just >one? I would appreciate any help . > >Thanks.. > You were not very clear about what sort of program you were writing. The Rexx language included with OS/2 could assemble such info for you by scanning all possible drive letters a-Z with the SysDriveInfo function. Look in the Info folder within the Rexx book in the RexUtils section. There are lots of useful functions in it and I would expect the list to expand in the future. GregF
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!vnet.ibm.com From: bigred@vnet.ibm.com (Greg Forney bigred@vnet.ibm.com) Message-ID: <19920822.101051.806@almaden.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 13:05:44 EDT Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps Subject: Re: Available drives on the system Reply-To: bigred@vnet.ibm.com (Greg Forney) Organization: IBM Lines: 25