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VFP : Determine whether a floppy disk is inserted or not
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Can VFP check whether a floppy disk is inside the drive or not?
>>>It can be done in Foxpro 2.x using ISDISKIN.BIN
>>>
>>>Rgds
>>
>>Hi Ralf,
>>
>>In addition to Ed's reply, DISKSPACE("A:") will return -1 if no disk is inserted (or some other error occurs).
>
>Hi George,
>
>Is that on a Win95/98 machine? I tried it on a WinNT machine and got an NT system error that ON ERROR would not trap. Or is this what happend on Win95/98 too?
>
>Bill

Win98 SE. I don't have an NT box to test it with. The docs don't say that there may be a problem with NT. Just that -1 is returned. It may be an issue with the ersion/SP of NT that you're running.

Maybe Ed R. knows something about this.
George

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