Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:33:48 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org (FreeBSD chat list) Cc: jmg@nike.efn.org (John-Mark Gurney) Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] Message-ID: <Mutt.19970112113348.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970112020555.16860a-100000@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>; from John-Mark Gurney on Jan 12, 1997 02:08:16 -0800 References: <E0vjICa-00032J-00@rover.village.org> <Pine.NEB.3.95.970112020555.16860a-100000@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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As John-Mark Gurney wrote: > actually... dos supports 32 drive letters.. :) > > a quote from a friend that know dos extreamly well (Jon Mini): > You might like to pass it on that DOS can support up to 32 drive letters. > You get drives A..Z, then "[\]^_`" This is true for any MS-DOS from 3.20 Ah, but that still makes only 31, right (the @ is missing to make it 32)? Ok, i've realized that we ``only'' support 30 slices either. > on up. I can't speak for any DOS clones however. And yes, DOS will parse > "\:filename.ext" correctly. =) Ick! :) > jtymltk :)... ttyl.. Hmpf %^) ? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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