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From: magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: SCAN program for IBM's (PC)
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Date: 16 Jan 91 16:04:03 GMT
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woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes:
>Fastback senses when a disk is inserted.  There is a flag that is used
>to determine if a disk has been removed or inserted.  A program such
>as this can certainly query that flag.  No problem

Yes, but to do this, it has to keep the drive in question selected all
the time, drive motor running. Would you really want to have drive A:
going all the time your computer was up? And how could the program
check if a disk was inserted in another drive (only one drive can be
active at a time)?

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