> I need a clean way to detect if a floppy is in the floppy
> drive, prior to accessing the drive to write a file.
>
> Is there a clean method, in perl, to do this?
Err... why not do the following:
while (not open(FILE, ">m")) { prompt("Insert Disk") }
The *** BEST *** way to do this sort of thing is to try.
You won't create reliable programs by testing a condition,
twiddling thumbs (even for a microsecond) and then doing
it. The real word is nasty like that.
However, on my system the floppy disk drive is
disconnected... and ANY attempted access will hang it
(temp). I guess on DOS/Windows you aren't going to get
much better than my solution anyways. (touch wood).
Jonathan Paton
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