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From: hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Novell Drive Connect Feature
Message-ID: <41897.26d8dfb1@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 26 Aug 90 22:54:09 GMT
References: <10297@life.ai.mit.edu> <10298@life.ai.mit.edu>
Organization: Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia
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In article <10298@life.ai.mit.edu>, rpk@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Robert Krajewski) writes:
> There's a cool feature of the Drive Connect command (from File
> Manager) that I can't seem to reproduce from DOS, which is too bad.
> That is, you can *really* map a drive to a subdirectory on a Novell
> volume.  So even if map drive X to a subdirectory, I can't do this:
>
>       X:
>       CD ..
>
> I consider this a feature; it allows you to hide the position of a
> hierarchy of directories.  It's like letting SUBST work on network
> drives.
>
> However, there doesn't seem to be any Novell command line incantation
> that produces the same result.  What exactly is or is not going on
> here ?

This is now possible with the latest revision of the Novell utilities. Just use:

    map x:=whatever \

The backslash says that this will be a pseudo-root directory.
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