John Poltorak wrote in a message to All:


 JP>  paste the lines above the dots into a file called
 JP> 'nextdev.txt'  then paste the lines following the dots (as
 JP> far as the dashes) into a file called 'nextdev.cmd'
 JP>  running nextdev.cmd should produce a 349 byte file called
 JP> 'nextdev.sys' which is a DOS device driver which will
 JP> allocate the next  available drive letter - viz:

 JP>  device=nextdev.sys z

 JP>  I am interested in getting an OS/2 version of this, but
 JP> don't know how... 

How 'bout the dumbdrv included with IHPFS120.ZIP

***--------DUMBDRV.DOC----------------

 What is DumbDrv?

 DumbDrv is a device driver which creates a null block device  -
 a  drive  that does absolutely nothing, except for occupying  a
 drive  letter.  This can be useful if one wants  to  reserve  a
 drive letter at boot time, so that another driver can use  that
 drive  letter.  The KillDrv utility may be  used  to  delete  a
 DumbDrv device.

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later,
        Doug 
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