Multiple floppies in one system?

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Feb 28 05:03:40 2002

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Tothwolf wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Joe wrote:
>
> > The Assign command works wonders in cases like these. Unfortunately
> > MicroSoulth dropped it from their later versions of DOS. Still you can
> > probaly use a copy from an older DOS and use other DOS cammand (that I
> > can't think of the name of) to fake it into thinking that it's running
> > under it's native DOS version.
>
> Could you be thinking of 'setver' (or was it called something else?)

The MS-DOS ASSIGN command let you assign a drive letter for a drive, sort
of like an alias.

I think the syntax was:

ASSIGN D: C:

Meaning D: would be the equivalent of C:

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