| Revised | Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:26 AM PDT |
| By | John Mitchell |
| Article ID | 193 (r1253) |
| Circulation | PUBLIC
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Occasionally you need to know if a mapped network drive has become unavailable, perhaps to send a message to reset the connection, or possibly to abort a command which would fail if the drive is not ready.
EXEC\102 will do that.
Four switches should follow the \102 :
EXEC\102d123!nextcommand
"D" is the drive to check.
"1" should be either a Y or an N. If it is a "Y", a message is displayed in Notepad that the drive is unavailable.
"2" is also a "Y" or "N", specifying whether the remainder of the command should be aborted. If "Y" (abort), the rest of the batch command (after the exclamation) will not run.
"3" is also a "Y" or "N". If it is a "Y", an ALERT is created and posted if the drive is unavailable.
EXEC\102mYYN!MLOAD1
If drive "M" is not available, a message is displayed in notepad, and the MLOAD1 will not run.
EXEC\102mYN !MLOAD1
If drive "M" is not available, a message is displayed in notepad, and the MLOAD1 will still run.