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- DRIVE TYPES Version 2.0 PUBLIC DOMAIN SOURCE CODE FOR PASCAL
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-
- 1. WHAT IS IT?
-
- The DRVTYPES.PAS Borland (Turbo) Pascal 6+ public domain code gives you
- possibilities to retrieve the type of a specified drive. Version 2.0
- currently provides detection of the following drive types:
-
- - Fixed drives
- - Removeable (floppy, etc.) drives
- - Remote (network) drives
- - MSCDEX V2.00+ compatible CD-ROM drives
- - DoubleSpace compressed drives
- - SUBST'ed or re-assigned drives
- - Stacker version 4 compressed drives (dunno about earlier versions)
- - RAM drives (driven usually by RAMDRIVE or VDISK)
- - Vertisoft DoubleDisk 2.6 compressed drives
- - IOmega Bernoully drives
- - Norton Diskreet drives
- - SuperStor compressed drives
-
- 2. HOW TO USE DRVTYPES
-
- Program DRIVES.PAS demonstrates the use of the DrvTypes unit.
- Since most of the entire code in DRVTYPES.PAS written in BASM (built-in
- assembler), you may easily port this code for use with the C/CPP language
- (see general notes in DRVTYPES.PAS for more information).
-
- 3. LICENSE AGREEMENT
-
- DrvTypes and all associated code released to public domain giving all users
- free access to the entire source code. You are allowed to modify all sources
- except that we would like to ask you not to touch authority lines. You may
- also give us credits if you want to.
-
- 4. DISCLAIMER
-
- AS-IS BASIS IS ASSUMED. NO WARRANTIES ARE PROVIDED.
-
- 5. HOW TO OBTAIN THE LATEST INFORMATION, REPORT BUGS OR CONTACT THE AUTHORS
-
- DrvTypes library developed by Mr. Byte and Bobby Z with help of the following
- contributors: Janis Smits and Vitaly Lysenko.
-
- If you wish to contribute some code to detect new drives, or you have bug
- report, or anything else, just post your message by electronic mail to one
- of the following addresses:
-
- Write to Mr. Byte (Andrew Eigus)
- Internet e-mail: aeigus@fgate.castle.riga.lv, andrejs@ltu-po.swh.lv
- Fidonet e-mail: 2:5100/33@fidonet
- BBS: +371-2-559777 (AndRew's BBS in Riga, Latvian Republic)
-
- Enjoy DrvTypes!
- 07.03.95
-