Backpack is used just like any other disk drive. It has its own drive letter. You
can access it from your programs by referring to the drive letter. The only re -
striction is that you can't write to the CD-ROM drive. If you have never used a
CD-ROM drive before, a brief tutorial is included in Appendix B of this User’s
Guide.
Backpack’s Drive Letter
Just as your existing disk drives are referred to by letters (A:, B:, etc.), back-
pack also has a drive letter associated with it. The letter to be used is assigned
by DOS and is determined by which letters are already in use on your system.
Backpack will get the next available letter in alphabetical order. In a typical
hard disk system where the floppy drives are A: and B: and the hard disk is C:,
backpack will be drive D:.
If you are using MS-DOS of Windows 3:
When your computer is powered up, the Microsoft CD-ROM extensions pro-
gram will display a message on the screen to tell you the backpack letter. The
message will look like this:
Drive D: = Driver BPCDDRV$ unit 0
In this case, you will refer to the backpack CD-ROM drive as drive D: when
you are accessing it through any software packages.
You can check the backpack drive letter at any time by one of three methods:
A) Insert the backpack master diskette in drive A and type:
A:cddrives¿ or
B) From the hard drive in DOS, type:
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