Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:55:57 +1100 From: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, jmg@nike.efn.org Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] Message-ID: <Mutt.19970114145557.davidn@labs.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: <199701140011.TAA02500@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Jan 13, 1997 19:11:38 -0500 References: <Mutt.19970112113348.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701140011.TAA02500@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Joel Ray Holveck writes: > >> 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)? > > I am told that a full 32 is supported, but not all 32 can be parsed. > Under Novell, I am told, only [A-Z] is supported. (I have not > attempted to confirm this.) No, actually it is the opposite. You see these "additional" drives a fair bit under Netware in particular because it uses them for temporary drive mappings. Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
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