Hi Gregory,

hm, to reproduce:

Put a USB Memory on (Or, if you have, a floppy disc), set the lock switch to locked, try FCREATE on drives root.

Immediately a dialog comes up notifying the drive is readonly.

But. This was as I started testing on my IDE. Now I've implemented the code just to go the next step and test it. The dialog is gone, and I'm happy. I guess this will depend on some SETings I do for runtime.
So all is fine.

I figured that out just this minute.

Thank you for your assistance

Agnes
>hi Agnes,
>
>What dialog are you referring to ? Can you give a piece of code and tell where the dialog pops up ?
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>>Hi Gregory,
>>
>>Thank you for your suggestion.
>>this was my first idea. ::)
>>
>>the problem to me is that this will bring up a stupid dialog that I can not trap.
>>
>>Agnes
>>>>Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>how to determine if a (removable)drive is locked (read only)?
>>>>
>>>>TIA
>>>>
>>>>Agnes
>>>
>>>
>>>Agnes,
>>>
>>>There will be better ways, I am sure.
>>>
>>>What I did a few years ago, (for diskette) was to try to create an empty file with fcreate() on that drive.