>>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>>I've just received control on Distribution application. This application is quite complicated, but here is one method, which looks suspicious to me:
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>>>>I believe, on some systems if drive is not ready, we'll see the system level error (Windows error) and not VFP error. I have IsDriveReady function, which uses WSH. Do you think, I should re-write this method?
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>>>>What would be your suggestions?
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>>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>>"If it ain't broken, don't fix it". :)
>>>Under NT/WIn2K you'll get Windows dialog if there's no diskette in the floppy drive. If you concern about that add a few lines of code from mskb #Q191501 to supress those messages.
>>>BTW, looks like the technique from this mskb is implemented in VFP7 because no Windows messages generated in VFP7 under the same conditions that causes them under VFP6.
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>>I've tried this code on Windows NT 4.0 and it didn't give me a Windows error message.
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>What code we're talking about?
The original code from the first message. I didn't incorporate your suggestion and decided to test on Windows NT (I don't have Windows 2000 here). I'm using VFP6 SP4. diskspace('a:') didn't get me an error on windows NT.