How to Find the Hard Disk Drive Name Using FoxPro for Mac

• Microsoft FoxPro for Macintosh, versions 2.5b, 2.5c
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Macintosh, version 3.0b

SUMMARY

Using the sample program below, you can programmatically determine the name of the current hard disk drive for functions such as SET DEFAULT TO in situations where you will not know this information ahead of time.

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Method 1

NOTE: SYS(16) returns the full path of the currently executing program.

   *Procedure to determine the hard drive name in FoxPro/Mac
   SET TALK OFF              && stop echo to screen
   PRIVATE x, datafolder
   datafolder="Apps:Data:"   && folder structure depends on the system
   x=LEFT(SYS(2027,SYS(16)),AT(":",SYS(2027,SYS(16))))
   * Variable X now contains the hard drive volume name
   x=x+datafolder            && set up the DEFAULT path
   SET DEFAULT TO (x) && sets default even though we didn't know HD name
   SET TALK ON

Method 2

The following commands will place a list of all mounted volume names (delimited with semicolons) in the memory variable "vol_list":

   SET LIBR to foxtools
   vol_list=fxVolume()

Method 3

The following command will place the volume name FoxPro started from in the memory variable "start_vol":

   start_vol=SET('DEFAULT')