OpenEuphoria

Re: Floppy_Is_Blank Function Request

• Posted by Andy Cranston <Andy.Cranston at EUPHONY.CO.UK> Aug 30, 2000
• 465 views

Another take on this...

How about running a CHKDSK A: and saving the output to a file.

Then look in the file for the two lines similar to:

  1457664 bytes total disk space.
  1457664 bytes available on disk.

Extract the byte counts and compare.  If equal then the disk is blank.  If
not then one or more files/directories are present (even hidden and system
ones).

Regards,

Andy Cranston.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hawke' [mailto:mikedeland at NETZERO.NET]
Sent: 30 August 2000 10:25
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: Floppy_Is_Blank Function Request


errrrr.............
will that take into account, assuredly, hidden/system files being
present on that floppy????
im thinking it won't actually :/
--Hawke'

> Hello ck,
> Use the function
> if atom(dir("a:*.*")) then
> If the disk is empty, even if there is no disk in the 'a' drive, dir()
> returns -1. This is an atom; otherwise the dir() function returns a
> sequence.
>
> Hope this helps,    Ad


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