hi Mike,

 * Re:
   from Mike Bilow, 1:323/107
 ML>>     I need to determine the current OS/2 boot drive
 ML>> (partition) from within a REXX program.  The only foolproof
 ML>> solution I have found is an external function that calls
 ML>> DosQuerySysInfo(5,5,&Buf,sizeof(Buff)), where Buff is
 ML>> declared ULONG and will contain the partition number after
 ML>> the call.

 MB> This is the only way I can think of to do it, too.  On the other hand,
 MB> a DLL that can be called from REXX to perform this function is easy
 MB> to write.

Dave Boll's YDBAUTIL.DLL contains a RxQuerySysInfo function and loads of
other external functions for easy prototyping in REXX.  It's free and
usualy found in a RXU.ZIP archive
(ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.com/os2/dev32/rexx/rxu18.zip)

regards,
         hugo