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Is there a decent way to check the "readiness" of a floppy drive in
Turbo C2.0?

I wrote an install program that copies files from a diskette and if the
drive door is open, or the drive is empty, I get the ever-so-inelegant 
"Abort, Retry, Fail?" message.  Not only is it annoying, it screws up my
CXL screens.

The Turbo C help (and some books I've read) say to call "getcurdir" for
the floppy drive.  If an error occurs, getcurdir is supposed to return
-1.  Well, it sort of does but only after you select "Fail".

4dos will tell me the drive door is not closed, or the drive
is empty but I can't seem to get my C program to trap the error before
DOS (4DOS) does (COMMAND.COM also gets in the way).

I've seen "drvrdy.com" from PC magazine (without source, of course) but
I need to check the drive status without calling an external program.

If anyone has done this in the past, please e-mail me the solution.
I'll post a summary if necessary.

Thanks in advance -- don
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