Disk serial numbers

[Richard Gaskin]

Ken Ray wrote:

> Hey, Richard! You have something there... if you do a shell to switch to
> a drive (like "D:") and there's no media in the drive, it's return "The
> device not ready." under XP, and it DOESN'T throw up a dialog box in
> your face!
> 
> Now all you know is that the device isn't ready (not necessarily that
> there's no media in the drive), but 99% of the time it would be giving
> that response because of no media.

That's very encouraging:  if I understand you correctly, it seems we've
found a way past the XP error when checking drives directly in native
MetaTalk, yes?

If so, I wonder if MC could modify the way it checks file existence to save
this extra step.....

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