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From: rgenter@BBN-LABS-B.ARPA (Rick Genter)
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Subject: From which drive did I start (Atari-800)?
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Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 15:15:58 EST
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     I recently unpacked my Atari-800 which has been in storage for the past
two years and have been doing some extensive Basic hacking on it.  I have a
question that I can't find the answer to in any of my documentation, though
I may have just missed it.

     Is there some way, from Basic, to determine from which disk drive the 
currently executing program was started?  Obviously if the program was just
typed in this should return a <No such drive> indication.  But if I typed:

	RUN "D3:FOO.BAS

is there something that FOO.BAS can do to determine that it was executed from
D3: as opposed to D<anything else>:?  As this is Basic, no hack, no matter
how gross or disgusting, will be frowned upon, as long as it works :-).

     Please reply directly to me; I have asked to be on this mailing list, but
have not gotten it confirmed yet and don't want to miss any responses.  I'll
summarize when appropriate.
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