Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 18:50:44 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Sam." <sam AT greenaum DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Detecting all system drives ... how?
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On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Sam. wrote:

> >(And BTW, DOS allows for a maximum of 32 drives, not 26; Novel Netware
> >is one case where that capability is actually used.)
> 
> What are the last 6 called?

They are called by the 6 characters that follow capital Z: [, \, ], ^,
_ and `.  That is why, btw, a DOS program should never use `isalpha'
in code that tests whether a pathname includes a drive letter; just
testing if the second character is a colon `:' would be enough.