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echo: os2
to: LEONARD ERICKSON
from: MIKE RUSKAI
date: 1999-10-24 22:08:00
subject: Newbie

Some senseless babbling from Leonard Erickson to Lawrence R. Mintz
on 10-23-99  18:21 about 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
 LE> broader. We had a LAN that ran under DOS 2.x. And you could not only
 LE> have drives A-Z, but also @:, [:, and ]: I'm not sure if it allowed
 LE> \:, ^: or _:.

Type "]:" at an OS/2 CMD prompt.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... Does that look like a slut to you, Beavis?

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