From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 12 02:08:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA19025 for current-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 02:08:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id CAA19020 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 02:08:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id CAA06188; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 02:08:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 02:08:16 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > In message J Wunsch writes: > : Uh-oh, Warner. :-) That's possible since FreeBSD 2.0.5. I think you > : can have 32 slices or so (that's more than DOS can have, it has only > : 26 drive letters :-). actually... dos supports 32 drive letters.. :) a quote from a friend that know dos extreamly well (Jon Mini): You might like to pass it on that DOS can support up to 32 drive letters. You get drives A..Z, then "[\]^_`" This is true for any MS-DOS from 3.20 on up. I can't speak for any DOS clones however. And yes, DOS will parse "\:filename.ext" correctly. =) jtymltk :)... ttyl.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)