>> users will have FAR more than 60 GB disk size and you can >> have only 24 drive letters from C: to Z:
> Up to 32 under some DOS/Windows versions: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment#Common_assignments While you CAN have up to 32 drive letters, it's usually not a good idea to have more than 26. The problem is that the drive letters are referred to as the ASCII characters that follow Z, which are: [\]^_` It is VERY difficult (usually impossible) to enter these drive "letters" into a program, or even into the DOS command-line. For example, the root directory of the 28th drive is: \:\ which is not something many programs would understand. So, while it's possible to have more than 26, it's rarely a good idea. I've read that the 4DOS command shell has special "escape sequences" that allow you to overcome the problems on the command-line, but AFAIK no other DOS command-line has anything like that -- not even MS-DOS. E.g., I have a LASTDRIVE=32 line in my CONFIG.SYS for MS-DOS 7.1 ("DOS 98") and when I do a: \: to try and switch to the 28th drive, it acts like I did nothing at all. It should give me an "Invalid drive specification" error message like it does if I type "M:". _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
