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Help! I need drive # for USB flash

From: Paul McFerrin <pmcferrin at columbus dot rr dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:39:49 -0500
Subject: Help! I need drive # for USB flash
Reply-to: pmcferrin at columbus dot rr dot com

Folks: I'm expanding my Cygwin on a Platter (bootable & runable CD) to now use a USB Flash Drive as the medium. There is an environment variable called "HOMEDRIVE" that contains the drive letter that the program is running from. If running from CD, it will contain the drive letter, \

However when executing from a USB Flash drive, MS sets it to your hard-drive letter (C). As a result, I have no way to determine(easily) my drive letter to set the appropriate environment.

I'm sure that MS has some sort of API to get this information. Does anyone know which API and have a little example of how to use it. I'm running XP Pro with sp3 and cygwin 1.5.24.

- Paul McFerrin

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