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- From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
- Subject: Re: Getting a valid FileSysStartupMsg pointers.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.031635.8317@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- References: <72553@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec30.143415.10947@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:16:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.143415.10947@samba.oit.unc.edu> Todd_Lewis@unc.edu (Todd M. Lewis) writes:
- >In article <72553@cup.portal.com> Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS
- >PRESTON) writes:
- >>So give us an "Official" way to walk the device list that is compatible
- >>with 1.3 thru 3.0 that will kick out the "strange" things and keep only
- >>the valid devices (like DF0:, any DH0:, ect...). One of the reasons
- >>I checked for specific device names(like Pipe:) was because of the
- >>"strange" things....
- >
- >Guess I'd better not run your software on my system with a
- >hard-disk partition named "Pipe:" or "VD0:" huh?
- >--
- > _/_/_/ _/ Todd_Lewis@unc.edu You can lead a horse to
- > _/ _/ utoddl@guitar.oit.unc.edu Mohammad, but you can't make
- > _/ _/_/_/ a mountain drink a mole hill.
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- Wouldn't it be sufficient to check the dl_DiskType field of the dos list
- structure in order to distinguish between a volume (DLT_VOLUME) and device
- (DLT_DEVICE)?
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- Jeff
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