Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 08:52:30 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To: vincent AT physique DOT ens DOT fr
Subject: Re: Floppy Error Msg supression
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> there is another simpler way which work for me that may not be so clever
> try "findfirst" if no disquette is in the drive it give an error message
> but does not hang !

Yes, this is known, but it sometimes will still give you a problem,
because it is a DOS call.  If you want to be sure you won't get that
``Abort, Retry, Explode'' from DOS, it's safer to not call DOS in the
first place.