Subj : Re: how to detect cdrom?
To   : Stan Brown
From : Charles Dye
Date : Sat Feb 09 2002 05:17 am

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

From: raster@highfiber.com (Charles Dye)

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:18:32 -0500, brahms@mindspring.com (Stan Brown) wrote:

>E. S. (Steve) Fabian <ESFabian@BellAtlantic.net> wrote in
>comp.os.msdos.4dos:
>>Locating a virtual [ram] disk is not trivial.
>
>Those who have an installation of Windows 9x will find a 7 KB
>program
>       C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EBD\FINDRAMD.EXE
>that returns 3-26 in ERRORLEVEL for RAM drive as C through Z. The OP
>wanted a generic PC-DOS solution. I don't know whether FINDRAM will
>run in a 16-bit environment, but it might be worth a try.

     findramd %+ set ram=%@char[%@eval[64+%?]]:

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