>> Is it possible to have a ZZZ9: drive >> in DOS (or other many letter ID) ? > > unlikely. some DOSes allowed 0x40..0x59 > ie A..Z + @[]\^ > > but none allowed anything other then x:
As Tom indicates, later versions of MS-DOS allowed up to 32 drive letters. You set this up by using the LASTDRIVE=32 command in CONFIG.SYS (instead of the usual LASTDRIVE=Z or whatever). The problem is that even though this let you have something like \: as a "legal" drive identifier, you can almost never get any programs to recognize it as such (and it can cause great confusion). You can't even use it at an MS-DOS command-line to identify a file (I've tried), even in versions of MS-DOS where it is legitimate. I read or heard somewhere that 4DOS implemented some special escape sequences or something you could enter at a command-line or in a batch file to identify such drives, but have never tried it myself. There may be other ways to do it also, but I'm not sure. It's best to leave it at 26. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
