Multiple floppies in one system?

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Feb 28 13:26:52 2002

> > > 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:

Wow, sounds just like the DOS/CMD.EXE (NT, 2000) command called
 
  SUBST

as in identical syntax...

-dq
Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 13:26:52 GMT