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From: bradley.grigor@canremote.uucp (BRADLEY GRIGOR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Another use for SUBST
Message-ID: <90032523232176@masnet.uucp>
Date: 26 Mar 90 01:27:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes
re: Swap directories (was Re: Need input for future DOS release)

do>Not exactly the same, but even more useful, and possible right now:  

do>Just make sure you have enough
do>spare drive letters, and put something like
do>  subst E: C:\
do>in your autoexec.bat.  Then you can change to e:\firstdir and
do>c:\anotherdir, and have easy access to both just by typing a couple
do>of letters.  In fact, I don't know why anyone uses any other form of
do>the subst command.

SUBST is a very handy PORTABILITY TRICK when you work with more
than one computer system, on a network for example. My two
computers are connected by a serial network. I use the SUBST
drive letters as a "system-independent" way to represent common
subdirectories.  E.g. I can move batch files between the machines
and be guaranteed that drive letter L:, for example, will access
the same files from either system.

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