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Date:      Sun, 12 Jan 1997 02:08:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970112020555.16860a-100000@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <E0vjICa-00032J-00@rover.village.org>

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On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Mutt.19970111124933.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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

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