Subj : Re: how to detect cdrom?
To   : Outsider
From : Outsider
Date : Fri Feb 08 2002 08:03 am

From: Outsider@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (Outsider)
Subject: Re: how to detect cdrom?

From: Outsider <nonvalid_email@yahoo.com>

Outsider wrote:
>
> Brian.Iglesias@xspamp0.f321.n751.z6.fidonet.org wrote:

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> > can this be done without using external utilities?
>
> Yes. It can even be done without 4DOS <G>.
> Always assign drive letter Z to your CD-ROM drive. If you already
> know it is Z, there is no need to find it. Makes things a lot easier.
> Below is a suggested outline, make whatever changes you require.
>
> [Menu]
> menuitem=Windows
> menuitem=DOS
> menudefault=default,10
> menucolor=15,3
> numlock=off
>
> [common]
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You can do like this too _IF_ findramd.exe is working. Any line wrapping is
done intentionally by your newsreader.

  :: setramd.bat
  @ECHO off
  SET ramdrive=
  FINDRAMD.EXE
  FOR %%d in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do IF errorlevel
H%%d set ramdrive=%%d
  ECHO  ramdrive=%ramdrive%
  IF "%1"=="" GOTO end
  SET ramdrive=
  :or
  ECHO %1|CHOICE /N/CABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ >NUL
  FOR %%d in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do IF errorlevel
H%%d set ramdrive=%%d
  ECHO  ramdrive=%ramdrive%
  :end

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I prefer the simple batch method to find the RAMdrive for two reasons.

1) It occupies only one cluster on a floppy, findramd.exe, at 6.855 bytes,
occupies 14.

2) One less executable to be concerned about.

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