- From: Clive D.W. Feather <clive@demon.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:00:30 +0100
- To: Jason Robinson <JRobinson@kitchenpages.com>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, uri@w3.org
Jason Robinson said:
> PS: DOS and Windows based systems support the notion of a "drive letter".
> I once did have a system which had double letters but I can not remember how
> I did that as it was quite some time ago (alowing for more then 26?)
Never mind having one; I've written one. I don't recall exactly how I did
it, but it was something like A: B: ... Y: Z: DAA: DAB: DAC: DAD: ...
with the jump from 1 to 3 letters making mistakes less likely.
My PDA has a two-level structure for drive names:
LOC::A: REM::A: IR::A:
LOC::B: REM::B: IR::B:
LOC::C: REM::C: IR::C:
("LOC::" is "local", "REM::" is "other end of remote link", "IR::" is
"other end of IRDA link"; other names are possible).
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