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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 11:04:01 +0000
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Subject: Re: Is C: always present?
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> Sometimes, there's a need to depend on a certain disk to always be 
> present.  An example would be those features that need a disk access, but 
> affect some global variables, like the LFN support in the library.
> 
> The question is: can we assume that C: is such a drive?  What about 
> diskless networked machines--do they have C:?  
By default no, a simple installation of Novell drivers will use a letter after 
lastdrive setting, so normally the network drive will be F or something like 
that. So you'll have A and F for example, no C.
If the administrator have some brain will remap F to C because tons of programs 
needs it. Some installers just copies to C.

> If they do, where is that  disk mapped to?
Don't understand very well, if you remap C you'll make it to a directory in the 
server (not the root normally).

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