From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: LD hangs!!!! (no, it merely fiddles with D:)
Date: 5 Mar 1997 05:14:12 GMT
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This might happen if ld scans all the drive letters to look for attached
hardware. (Usually, though, only interface driven programs do this,
typically to provide the user a list of valid drives to choose from.) Such
a scan would probably involve implementing a signal handler, then trying
to get a directory of the root dir of each possible drive letter A-Z. The
ones that don't cause error signals would be remembered in an array.

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