>>Umm, Mike, did you just hiccup here?:-)
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>*sigh* I see that my original, well-crafted, and witty reply didn't make it through, either. Oh, well, you just knew it was going to be yet another reference to a MSFT KB article. :-)

Gee, I wonder if you meant Q191501 - "HOWTO: Detect If the Floppy Drive Is Ready on Windows NT" (and I wonder why that one would come to mind< bg >).

It's a perfectly good solution , of course, but it is a good deal more work, don't you think? And I'm lazy.:-)