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From: chasman@athena.mit.edu (David Chasman)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Microsoft C disk inquiry function
Keywords: DOS , C, I/O, DISK
Message-ID: <1990Dec24.075611.13184@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 24 Dec 90 07:56:11 GMT
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Hi,
Does anyone out there have some simple C code I can use to see if
a floppy drive is O.K. - i.e.  - is there a disk in there or not ?

I picture something that I would call as follows:

	int is_there_a_disk(char drive_name)

it would return 1 = Yes, 2 = No, I want to  avoid the 
"Please insert disk for drive A/B " etc. that you usually get
by testing and doing something about the predicament in my program.

--David Chasman