Re: Getting DiskDrive Space

• From: "Rick Bean" <rgbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:05:36 -0400

Lee,
Unfortunately it's near impossible to make a Windows API call from FP DOS. <g>

Rick

Hi Shay:

I found code on Universalthread.com that allows you to get disk space
statistics beyond 2 GB.  Go to www.universalthread.com, click on the
Download icon, and choose Visual FoxPro as the product. In the ID text box
of the query page, search for "9718."

I hope this helps.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Sincerely,
Microsoft FoxPro Technical Support
Lee Mitchell

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But it doesn't return a good value for any partition greater than ~2GB -

that

was an "ultimate" limit in DOS.

Rick

"Dan Freeman" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23LCQQpjuFHA.1472@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The diskspace() function has been around forever.

Dan

SHAY wrote:

Hello EveryOne,
I generally write programs in FPD 2.6 , now i have to write a small
program that would check the availabe disk drive on the system and if
its low it should notify me with an alert . As couple of times we
have run short of the disk space & did'nt know till the things
started running really slow. please help.
thank you in advance

.

• References:
  • Re: Getting DiskDrive Space
    • From: Dan Freeman
  • Re: Getting DiskDrive Space
    • From: Rick Bean
  • Re: Getting DiskDrive Space
    • From: Lee Mitchell

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