-=> Quoting Lee Aroner to Leonard Erickson <=-
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 _:.
LA> T'was the NetWare redirector that enabled drive ID's beyond Z...
LA> so far as I know, no other NOS allowed that.
LE> No, this was NESTAR, not Netware. The server ran UCSD p-System as the OS.
Ah, an oldie.
I was reminded today that OS/2 also has the capability to handle
drive assignments through "]" in, apparently for use by the
Netware client.
LRA
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