Multiple floppies in one system?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thu Feb 28 13:51:11 2002

At 11:03 AM 2/28/02 +0000, Sellam wrote:
>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:

  It would also let you assign paths in place of drives. I remember once
that I had internet SW installation program that was VERY slow and it kept
gringing and grinding on the floppy srives. After 20 minuates or so I
aborted it and copied the files from the floppy disks to a directory on my
hard drive then typed something like ASSIGN A: = C:\TEMP then went to the
TEMP directory and ran the INSTALL program. After that it went back to the
TEMP directory everytime it needed a file. It worked perfectly.

  Joe
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