Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpsgwp!plim From: plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Re: Adding a Third Floppy Drivea Message-ID: <3360007@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> Date: 14 Jan 91 01:55:26 GMT References: Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr Lines: 49 / flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) / 3:31 am Jan 12, 1991 / writes: $ You're right: (I remembered/wrote it slightly wrong) it goes to the 2nd disk $ for D then stays with the first disk. The effect is the same tho, every $ drive except c: gets relettered. $ Just an interesting observation. I noticed that the SUBST command can move drives around quite well. Assuming I have 4 hard disk partitions, C:, D:, E: and F:. I can do the sequence : subst d: e:\ subst d: f:\ ... now I can refer to drive E: as D: and drive F: as E:. The only problem is that the original drive D: is "invisible" now. If only we can swap the drive assignment instead of just replacing. However, it seems to me that if SUBST is able to do replacement, a little extension should be able to get it to do swapping. And somehow, I believe somebody has already done this out there. Anyone want to own up ? $ If you want an analogy, UNIX doesn't make you refer to files by their $ physical locations (/dev/dsk/1s3) but by names you select for the $ partitions (/usr) instead. DOS can do the same thing. $ Well ....., UNIX uses the ONE ROOT directory model whereas MS-DOS uses the multiple ROOTs (drives) model. So, it is not exactly the same. If you prefer this (and assuming that JOIN works properly ---- somehow, I don't quite trust this utility), try say join d: c:\usr (syntax ??). And join every other drives to drive C: ... then you eliminate the drive letter problems :-). $ -- $ Flint Pellett, Global Information Systems Technology, Inc. $ 1800 Woodfield Drive, Savoy, IL 61874 (217) 352-1165 $ uunet!gistdev!flint or flint@gistdev.gist.com $ ---------- $ Regards, . .. ... .- -> -->## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ Singapore 0410. SPLAT ! #include