DRIVE TYPES Version 2.0 PUBLIC DOMAIN SOURCE CODE FOR PASCAL
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1. WHAT IS IT?
The DRVTYPES.PAS Borland (Turbo) Pascal 6+ public domain code gives
you possibilities to retrieve the type of a specified drive.
Version 2.0 currently provides detection of the following drive types:
- Fixed drives
- Removeable (floppy, etc.) drives
- Remote (network) drives
- MSCDEX V2.00+ compatible CD-ROM drives
- DoubleSpace compressed drives
- SUBST'ed or re-assigned drives
- Stacker version 4 compressed drives (dunno about earlier versions)
- RAM drives (driven usually by RAMDRIVE or VDISK)
- Vertisoft DoubleDisk 2.6 compressed drives
- IOmega Bernoully drives
- Norton Diskreet drives
- SuperStor compressed drives
2. HOW TO USE DRVTYPES
Program DRIVES.PAS demonstrates the use of the DrvTypes unit.
Since most of the entire code in DRVTYPES.PAS written in BASM
(built-in assembler), you may easily port this code for use with the
C/CPP language (see general notes in DRVTYPES.PAS for more information).
3. LICENSE AGREEMENT
DrvTypes and all associated code released to public domain giving all
users free access to the entire source code. You are allowed to modify
all sources except that we would like to ask you not to touch authority
lines. You may also give us credits if you want to.
4. DISCLAIMER
AS-IS BASIS IS ASSUMED. NO WARRANTIES ARE PROVIDED.
5. HOW TO OBTAIN THE LATEST INFORMATION, REPORT BUGS OR CONTACT THE
AUTHORS
DrvTypes library developed by Mr. Byte and Bobby Z with help of the
following contributors: Janis Smits and Vitaly Lysenko.
If you wish to contribute some code to detect new drives, or you have
bug report, or anything else, just post your message by electronic mail
to one of the following addresses:
Write to Mr. Byte (Andrew Eigus)
Internet e-mail: aeigus@fgate.castle.riga.lv, andrejs@ltu-po.swh.lv
Fidonet e-mail: 2:5100/33@fidonet
BBS: +371-2-559777 (AndRew's BBS in Riga, Latvian Republic)
Enjoy DrvTypes!
07.03.95
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Andrew Eigus
