Subj : Re: how to detect cdrom?
To   : Jasen.Betts@xspamp42.f531.n640.z3.f
From : Klaus Meinhard
Date : Mon Feb 11 2002 01:34 pm

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

From: "Klaus Meinhard" <K_Meinhard@t-online.de>

Jasen,

>  SB> I don't know whether FINDRAM will run in a 16-bit
>  SB> environment, but it might be worth a try
>
> ???? It runs fine in ms-dos 7
>
> but it seems to only find m$ brand ramdisks. (possibly by looking at
the
> label)

it does exactly that and only that (rename the ramdisk and FINDRAM won't find
it, rename another disk to MS-RAMDRIVE and it will be reported as ramdisk).
This "utility" is of course easily replaced by a oneliner in 4DOS:

  for %x in (c: d: e: f: g: h: i: j: w: x: y: z:) do if %@ready[%x] eq 1
if "% @label[%x]" eq "ms-ramdrive" echo drive %x is the ramdrive

  c:> drive w: is the ramdrive

You can o.c. adapt the driveletters to your needs.

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Viele Grube, best regards,

*Klaus Meinhard*
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