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Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:20:15 PDT
From:	"Rollin White" <rollin@scoug.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-programming@scoug.com" > scoug-programming@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Boot drive ?

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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:48:32 PDT, Robert Blair wrote:

>I got out my copy of the REXX Reference Summary Handbook by Dick Goran.
>In that book it is listed as an Object REXX function. So it may not be
>available on all systems.
>

The other technique that should work fine is to use the VALUE command along with one of these
environment variables:

USER_INI=C:\OS2\OS2.INI
SYSTEM_INI=C:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI
OS2_SHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
COMSPEC=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE

So, something like:

BootDrive = SUBSTR(STRIP(VALUE('USER_INI',,'OS2ENVIRONMENT'),'b'),1,2)

The last three could conceivably be replaced by alternates which might not be on the boot drive so I
think the INI is the safest.

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