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Pat,

PL> Courtesy a guru I know in Nacogdoches, Texas, now we
PL> know the Win 2K/XP tape analogue of the \\.\A: \\.\B: of
PL> disks & cd-roms ... is \\.\TAPE0 \\.\TAPE1 ...

As a matter of fact, you should never rely on the fact that the series
begins at 0 and continues without empty slots. All new hot-pluggable
hardware devices (I don't know whether such tape drives exist, but it
is definitively the case for physicaldisk0, etc.) can occupy a slot
and, when removed, leave the slot empty.

Looping on tapex from 0 to 9 would be a good safety measure. In my
code, where I have to do that for physical drives, I even go up to 26
(== Z:), albeit I never personally saw a physicaldrive10 or more.




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Pierre Duhem
Logiciels & Services Duhem, Paris (France)
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