Multiple floppies in one system?

From: Feldman, Robert <Robert_Feldman_at_jdedwards.com>
Date: Thu Feb 28 14:19:15 2002

ASSIGN (with the format such as "assign a=c" -- no colons allowed)
"Instructs DOS to route disk I/O requests for one drive into disk I/O
requests for another drive" (IBM DOS 3.30 Ref Manual).

SUBST (with the format such as "subst g: c:\foo\bar") "Allows you to use a
different drive specifier to refer to another drive or path." It's useful
where a program does not recognize paths, but does recognize different drive
letters.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Quebbeman [mailto:dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 1:27 PM
To: 'classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org'
Subject: RE: Multiple floppies in one system?



> > > 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 - 14:19:15 GMT