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to: Leonard Erickson
from: Lee Aroner
date: 1999-10-24 21:23:02
subject: Newbie

 -=> Quoting Lawrence R. Mintz to Rodrigo Cesar Banhara <=-

 LRM> The limit on logical drives is simply the
 LRM> letters of the alphabet (for drive designations) left over after all
 LRM> the primary partitions have been assigned.  That is true for DOS, all
 LRM> flavors of Windows and OS/2. 

LE> Actually, under at least some versions of DOS the limits are a bit
  > broader. We had a LAN that ran under DOS 2.x. And you could not only
  > have drives A-Z, but also @:, [:, and ]: I'm not sure if it allowed \:,
  > ^: or _:.


   T'was the NetWare redirector that enabled drive ID's beyond Z... 
   so far as I know, no other NOS allowed that.


                                             LRA


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