device_info

Short:        Get information about mounted DOS device
Author:       Thomas Aglassinger <agi@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
Uploader:     Thomas Aglassinger <agi sbox tu-graz ac at>
Type:         dev/src
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
Kurz:         Erfrage Information über DOS Gerät

TITLE

  device_info

AUTHOR

  Thomas Aglassinger <agi@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>

DESCRIPTION

  The C source codes in this archive show how to find out information
  about a device just by the name it is mounted with.

  You can use it for increase the usability of your programs. For
  example, don't expect the user to enter DEVICE="scsi.device" and
  UNIT=3, but instead let him simply specify DRIVE=CD0:. The latter
  one will even work if the user switched to a new SCSI-controller.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

  You need a C compiler to compile the sources. For SAS/c and GCC,
  ready made Makefiles are already included. As the code does not use
  any special features, compiling it with others should be strait
  forward.

AVAILABILITY

  Every Aminet mirror, file "dev/src/device_info.lha", for example:

  ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/dev/src/device_info.lha

DISTRIBUTABILITY

  Public domain.