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locating windows default drive
Name: secrets Date: October 14, 2004 at 05:27:53 Pacific OS: WINDOWS CPU/Ram: 1.7
Comment:
how to get the default drive and dir of windows in vb and vc?
Name: BlueRaja Date: October 14, 2004 at 13:34:01 Pacific
Reply:
Easiest way would be to call the system: system("echo %WINDIR%");
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Response Number 2
Name: secrets Date: October 14, 2004 at 18:43:29 Pacific
Reply:
any other solution?
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Response Number 3
Name: waterdog Date: October 15, 2004 at 07:41:31 Pacific
Reply:
The functions GetWindowsDirectory, GetSystemDirectory and GetCurrentDirectory when sent a pointer to a buffer and the size of the buffer can be used to get the directory's indicated in the function names. The drive letter is the first character in the buffer string.
When using GetCurrentDirectory the pointer to a buffer is the last parameter while it is the first parameter in the other two.
They all return the number of characters written to the buffer.
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