Hi, David.

DN>  FM> BTW, you may not need to actually install an interrupt handler, just
DN> use
DN>  FM> FindFirst. If the floppy is not there you don't hang but get DosError
DN> =
DN>  FM> 152. Sorry, that's in Pascal, don't know what the equivalent is in C,
DN>  FM> presumably the function returns an error code.

DN> A dos findfirst will trigger a critical error just like any other access. I
DN> don't know why any Pascal code should not do so, but if it isn't, then
DN> something somewhere is installing a CE handler. Installing such a handler i
DN> a fact of life when dealing with removable disks (which includes CDROMs
DN> which it seems very few account for at all) under DOS.

Yes, of course. TP installs a crit. error handler as a matter of course
and it's this that catches the error. I meant that the programmer
doesn't have to explicitly do that.

Regards, fIM.

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