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From: sandersr@ecn-pc.UUCP (Robert C Sanders)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Silly question (accessing /)
Message-ID: <530@ecn-pc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 15:02:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: ecn-pc.530
Posted: Fri Jun 27 15:02:20 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jun-86 03:31:57 EDT
References: <789@unirot.UUCP>
Reply-To: sandersr@ecn-pc.UUCP (Robert C Sanders)
Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University
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In article <789@unirot.UUCP> liz@unirot.UUCP (Mamaliz ) writes:
>All of a sudden I am terribly confused.  The DOS technical reference tells
>me that \ is not a file.  How do I find out what files are under it then?
>Where do I find it?  I do not hack assembler and would really like to do
>what I am doing in C.  So, how do people deal with the fact that root has
>no . ?

   Think of it this way: D:\ and D: are considered synomous for backwards
compatibility -- where 'D' refers to a drive name.  Whenever you want to
check for '.', first call the DOS interupt 21H (most C libraries allow this)
for the function that returns the current drive/path description as a string,
and then strcmp() it to some "D:\".  If true (0), you now know the name of
'.'.
					- bob
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