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If you know what a "floppy disk" is, then yes, there might be a situation when you will need to programmatically access and operate on the floppy disk, even today.
If you know what a "floppy disk" is, then yes, there might be a situation when you will need to programmatically access and operate on the floppy disk, even today.
Read the full article to learn about Accessing and Programming the Floppy Disk in Delphi applications
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Does anyone still uses floppy disks?!
Thnaks god I can’t remember the last time I even saw one!
@victoryjorge
If you want to check for a floppy you should check the disk type too. I use the drive letters A and B for hard disk partitions.
TurboPower Software’s now opensource toolkit “SysTools” provides a number of routines to determine specifics about drives and their media. GetDiskClass and GetDiskInfo are two of a list of valuable routines in the StUtils unit. Get the whole toolkit from SourceForge. FREE.
I guess if one is using Delphi for developing software, it would make sense that they probably still use floppy drives as well…
@Steve:
That’s actually the magic of delphi: you can use it as much for old-stuff applications as with up-to-date technologies (AJAX, JQuery, SOAP, marshalling, ..). Steve, as I guess your sarcasm, I’d be pleased to know what is the technology that you use for achieving stuffs that would not be possible with Delphi.
Thanks for your advice
To the younger ones: Please explain, what a floppy disk is
Where did you dig out this old source code?
@Ollo: