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Drive letter of current drive
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CRNG
2013-12-19 13:21:02 UTC
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Does anyone know of a TCMD internal variable that will return the
current-default drive letter; e.g. D: or E: or F: etc.? The
variable _DRIVES will return a list of all assigned drive letters on
the computer; however I would like to know the letter for only the
current default drive.

Thanks
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Laurent Jumet
2013-12-19 13:31:03 UTC
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Hello CRNG !
Post by CRNG
Does anyone know of a TCMD internal variable that will return the
current-default drive letter; e.g. D: or E: or F: etc.? The
variable _DRIVES will return a list of all assigned drive letters on
the computer; however I would like to know the letter for only the
current default drive.
ECHO %_DISK
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Klaus Meinhard
2013-12-19 13:37:18 UTC
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Hallo Laurent Jumet,
Post by Laurent Jumet
ECHO %_DISK
Of course! <sound of hand slapping forehead>
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Laurent Jumet
2013-12-19 14:24:22 UTC
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Hello Klaus !
Post by Klaus Meinhard
Post by Laurent Jumet
ECHO %_DISK
Of course! <sound of hand slapping forehead>
Where are actually Rex Conn and the other good guys?
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Stan Brown
2013-12-20 00:43:35 UTC
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Post by Laurent Jumet
Hello Klaus !
Post by Klaus Meinhard
Post by Laurent Jumet
ECHO %_DISK
Of course! <sound of hand slapping forehead>
Where are actually Rex Conn and the other good guys?
They hate Usenet with a white-hot burning animosity because they
can't control it, so they have their own sandbox where they can
exercise control.

Sort of like a small and pathetic imitation of Google.
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CRNG
2013-12-20 09:49:41 UTC
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:43:35 -0500, Stan Brown
Post by Stan Brown
Post by Laurent Jumet
Hello Klaus !
Post by Klaus Meinhard
Post by Laurent Jumet
ECHO %_DISK
Of course! <sound of hand slapping forehead>
Where are actually Rex Conn and the other good guys?
They hate Usenet with a white-hot burning animosity because they
can't control it, so they have their own sandbox where they can
exercise control.
Sort of like a small and pathetic imitation of Google.
Good description. But I still done understand why they didn't choose
a Yahoo Group forum which would have offered them the control they
seemed to want.

Well, I don't like proprietary forums that don't offer email
participation, so I dropped the JPSoft support forum (and any
inclinations to upgrade beyond TCDM v9, a few years ago.
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Laurent Jumet
2013-12-20 10:19:40 UTC
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Hello CRNG !
Post by CRNG
Good description. But I still done understand why they didn't choose
a Yahoo Group forum which would have offered them the control they
seemed to want.
A WebForum allows moderators to delete an offending message as soon as it's read;
a YahooGroup doesn't allow to delete a message once it's released.
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CRNG
2013-12-20 16:16:38 UTC
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On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 11:19:40 +0100, "Laurent Jumet"
Post by Laurent Jumet
Hello CRNG !
Post by CRNG
Good description. But I still done understand why they didn't choose
a Yahoo Group forum which would have offered them the control they
seemed to want.
A WebForum allows moderators to delete an offending message as soon as it's read;
a YahooGroup doesn't allow to delete a message once it's released.
Hello Laurent,

Yes, that's true. I didn't think of that. However, I don't recall
very much offensiveness in this group at the time. But then, I often
can't remember something from yesterday either.

OTOH, deleting an offending message requires all messages be 1) read
by a moderator or 2) that the moderator be notified of an offending
message. In either case there is probably a long lag time during
which the offending message can be read.

In the case of a Yahoo Group (YG), the moderator can warn an offending
poster the first time an inappropriate message is posted, and then
delete the membership of the poster the second time. I've been a
moderator of several YGs, and that has always kept the group well
behave.

There may have been other reasons for JPS to move to a proprietary
forum. I guess there is no chance of them going back to email access.
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Klaus Meinhard
2013-12-21 10:13:20 UTC
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Hallo CRNG,
Post by CRNG
There may have been other reasons for JPS to move to a proprietary
forum. I guess there is no chance of them going back to email access.
There _was_ email access to the JP Soft support forum for a long time.
This dwindled to email notification (read only) after a change of forum
software and notification of new threads only a few months ago.

The few remaining but vociferous dinosaurs in the forum demanding their
email access were to few to sway Rex's (low) opinion of email access.

Fazit: if all the people who complained here would have chimed in in the
forum, we could perhaps have swayed Rex and still _have_ our beloved
email access and participate from our newsreader.
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CRNG
2013-12-19 17:32:14 UTC
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Post by Klaus Meinhard
Hallo Laurent Jumet,
Post by Laurent Jumet
ECHO %_DISK
Of course! <sound of hand slapping forehead>
Exactly. As usual, I missed the obvious. At least now days I can
blame it on my age. Twenty-five years ago I didn't have that excuse.

Thanks Laurent and Klaus for the answer.
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Klaus Meinhard
2013-12-19 13:33:09 UTC
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Hallo CRNG,
Post by CRNG
Does anyone know of a TCMD internal variable that will return the
current-default drive letter; e.g. D: or E: or F: etc.? The
variable _DRIVES will return a list of all assigned drive letters on
the computer; however I would like to know the letter for only the
current default drive.
Well, there's _CWD, which will give you the current working directory,
and a simple parsing of this will give you the drive.
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Stan Brown
2013-12-20 00:42:25 UTC
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Post by CRNG
Does anyone know of a TCMD internal variable that will return the
current-default drive letter; e.g. D: or E: or F: etc.? The
variable _DRIVES will return a list of all assigned drive letters on
the computer; however I would like to know the letter for only the
current default drive.
Does %_disk not work for you? That's the standard in TCCLE.
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CRNG
2013-12-20 09:49:41 UTC
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:42:25 -0500, Stan Brown
Post by Stan Brown
Post by CRNG
Does anyone know of a TCMD internal variable that will return the
current-default drive letter; e.g. D: or E: or F: etc.? The
variable _DRIVES will return a list of all assigned drive letters on
the computer; however I would like to know the letter for only the
current default drive.
Does %_disk not work for you? That's the standard in TCCLE.
Yes, it works, but I wasn't aware of it. Since I was aware of
_DRIVES, I tried _DRIVE as a guess at what might work, but didn't. The
help file description for _DRIVES does not contain a "see also"
section which would be a place to mention the logically related _DISK
variable.
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