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Except of course for every operating system based on winnt, which uses c:/winnt/
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by raptnor2 (Beadle) on May 11, 2004 at 01:33 UTC
    Could you just check for the existence of "C:\"? How many OS's start with a letter, specifically the thrid letter in the alphabet (this is a real question)?

    Cheers,

    John

    Update:

    Apparrently you get '--'ed around here for asking what can be preceived as stupid questions. From this and BUU's comments I'll take the answer to my first question as no.

    Update 2:

    I was talking about the second question at work today with a friend. He said that OS/2 and one of the mainframe operating systems also used letters to denote drives.

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      That would, of course, fail if your windows installation had no drive labeled 'C'.
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