Re: Low level diskette I/O in Swiftforth

Gene,

> I recalled seeing the \\.\a: at somewhere, and when the first
> message popped up I tried to find it in the win32 docs without
> success.=20

If you search for "PhysicalDrive" in the Win32 Programmer's Reference,
you'll find an entry labelled "Device Handles" with the details. You
can see a reference to "\\\\.\\a:", as they are using C strings.

> If Federico gets a device error he can also step around it using
> REPOSITION-FILE

I am not the one who is having the problem. ;-)

Regards,
Federico de Ceballos

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Received on Tue Feb 15 2005 - 09:52:55 PST