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From: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se (Gunnar Dahlstrom)
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Subject: Re: Subst Command
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Date: 2 Jan 91 21:42:21 GMT
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In article <1990Dec31.204151.5378@uvm.edu> opergb@uvm.edu (Gary Bushey) writes:
>Raymond-Protection: enabled
>
>I am trying to get our ATT 386sx/EL computers to think that the A drive is the
>B drive during boot up so that people can't boot off of the floppy.
>
>I have been able to do this by switching cables and changing the setup so
>the computer thinks it has a B drive.
>
>the problem is that to get the B drive to become the A drive (this is done
>so that novice users are not confused), we have to use the SUBST command from
>DOS.  The problem arises in that there must be a diskette in the drive in order
>to substitute it.  We have been able to get around the error which states there
>is no diskette present but SUBST returns the error that the path is not found.  
>
>Does anyone know how SUBST works so that we may write a psuedo command to
>subst the B drive for the A drive?

Why not try the assign command ? I use assign when i install program from B: drive but the install program expect to find itself in A:, so try assign B=A.


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				Gunnar Dahlstrom
			Chalmers University of Technology
			    Div. Building Technology
			   412 96 Gothenbourg, Sweden
			E-Mail: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se
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