From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Drives in system?
Date:	Fri, 03 Jan 1997 18:36:22 -0800
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Restiana Jade wrote:
> 
>   What's the proper way to get a list of all the drives (C:, D:, etc)
> which are connected to the system? There doesn't seem to be a library
> function to do it except for _bios_equiplist (and it's laughable). Some of
> the INT 21h functions return the number of drives connected to the system,
> but that wouldn't indicate whether or not there was a B: drive.

Look up getmntent() in the libc reference.  It should do exactly what
you want.

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