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   Message 28,876 of 30,566   
   Gary R. Schmidt to Dan Purgert   
   Re: simple Linux Mint file transfer ques   
   13 Aug 25 22:18:20   
   
   XPost: aus.computers, alt.os.linux.debian   
   From: grschmidt@acm.org   
      
   On 13/8/25 19:18, Dan Purgert wrote:   
   > On 2025-08-13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 03:41:15 -0400, Paul wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In a similar way, USB card readers have been assigned E,F,G,H even when   
   >>> no media is present. The optical drive could be D, and not have media in   
   >>> the tray and still use a letter.   
   >>>   
   >>> [etc etc]   
   >>   
   >> What happens if you have more than 26 drives?   
   >   
   > As I recall, you can't do that.  But it's also been close to that many   
   > years since I've actually managed windows systems.   
   >   
   >   
   IIRC [ and ] gives you 28.  :-)   
      
   	Cheers,   
   		Gary	B-)   
      
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