There was also SUBST what would let you play some games. A friend of mine
had a trick where he could reverse two drives, or some such. It was
undocumented, but it let him boot from C:, mount D: as a network drive, then
swap the two.
--John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Sellam Ismail
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 6:04 AM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Multiple floppies in one system?
>
>
> 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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