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From: fighteer AT cs DOT com (John M. Aldrich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: How can I tell what type of disk drive a letter is?
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 21:11:27 GMT
Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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On Fri, 21 Feb 1997 21:12:33 -0500, Delong <dandelong AT osha DOT igs DOT net>
wrote:

>I am trying to distinguish between drives by their type in my program,
>but I can't find any functions that return some indication. 
>
>Anyone know how to do it?

Look up 'getmntent' in the libc documentation.  It should do exactly
what you are looking for.

hth!

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