Message-ID:	<00e801c09860$6a6ec2e0$11fea8c0@dell>
From:	"Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
References:	<01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4021F69 AT emwatent02 DOT meters DOT com DOT au>
Subject:	Re: Max. drive letter, etc. (was Hard Disk 20gb and dos)
Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:35:42 -0000
Organization:	Jemmett Glover Software Development
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> I remember reading an old Micro$oft manual that
> said you could have *more* drive letters than there
> were letters in the alphabet, so that the drives above
> "Z:" would be "[:" and so on, as per the ASCII
> character set ...
Not sure whether DOS's internal drivers will work above Z:, but it's
certainly possible to have drives further along ([: etc).  If one has
'LASTDRIVE=Z' in CONFIG.SYS and loads Novell's NETX workstation shell, the
first network drive is [:.

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)

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