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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problems finding out how many drives a system has.
Keywords: MSDOS, BUGS
Message-ID: <525@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 20 May 89 12:34:17 GMT
References: <188@stpl.UUCP>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <188@stpl.UUCP> peterc@stpl.UUCP (Peter CAMILLERI) writes:
>Hello Netland!
>
>I am in the process of writing a "friendly" DOS shell program. One of the
>things that I need to know is how many drives are present. Refering to

Look at the documentation of interrupt 21hex service 52hex in the
recently posted inter189.arc. It provides both the number of drives
and the lastdrive in config.sys for msdos version 3 onwards.

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Prof. Timo Salmi
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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