MIKE RUSKAI,

24-Oct-99 22:08:00, MIKE RUSKAI wrote to LEONARD ERICKSON
          Subject: Newbie

 MR> Some senseless babbling from Leonard Erickson to Lawrence R. Mintz
 MR> on 10-23-99  18:21 about Newbie...

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

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

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

Also these:

[D:\]\:
[D:\]`:
[D:\]_:
[D:\][:
[D:\]]:
    Ctrl-Q = ^Q
[D:\]^Q:
[D:\]^W:
[D:\]^E:
[D:\]^R:
[D:\]^T:
[D:\]^Y:
[D:\]^U:
[D:\]^O:
[D:\]^A:
[D:\]^F:
[D:\]^G:
[D:\]^X:
[D:\]^V:
[D:\]^B:
[D:\]^N:
    Ctrl-6 =  
[D:\] :
    Ctrl-\ =  
[D:\] :
    Ctrl-_ =  
[D:\] :
SYS0015: The system cannot find the specified drive.

That is 23 more than A-Z.  But I already know by default OS/2 auto-assigned
drive designators crap out at Z.  So how can we get OS/2 to auto-assign such a
partition?

     Thanks and Good Luck,        Andy Roberts
                                  andy@shentel.net

PS.: Reviewing this msg it seems the High ASCII got replaced with a blank
space in those last 3 examples.  But I'm sure you get the idea.

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