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From: stevew@tureen.Berkeley.EDU (Stephen Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Novell mapped drives
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Date: 18 Mar 91 19:53:27 GMT
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I've written a DOS shell/file manager in C that needs to search all of a
computer's hard drives for common applications to install.  I've been using
the Turbo C 2.0 setdisk() function to find out how many drives are in use,
but this only works in a standalone environment.

Recently, I've tried using my program in a Novell network environment,
which causes trouble because of Novell's mapped drives.  My program sees
multiple copies of many applications because of mapped drives.  For example,
WordPerfect is actually on drive D:\WP, but is also mapped to W:.  Thus, my
program finds two copies of WordPerfect when looking for programs to install.

How then, can I differentiate between actual physical drives and Novell's
mapped drives?  I'd like to be able to do this from Turbo C, of course.  Will
I need some kind of Novell library, or can I figure it out some other way?

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Stephen Williams				stevew@tureen.Berkeley.EDU
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