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From: heflin@cod.NOSC.MIL (Greg R. Heflin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Mapping
Message-ID: <2946@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 24 Mar 91 07:57:02 GMT
References: <5215@mindlink.UUCP>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <5215@mindlink.UUCP> Ullrich_Fischer@mindlink.UUCP (Ullrich Fischer) writes:
>Rather than try to include a PATH entry for every application you are
>ever likely to use, set up either a menu system which moves to the
>necessary directory and does temporary mapping required before calling
>up each application, or set up short batch files which do the same
>thing and are all located in F:\PUBLIC (which should always be in your
>minimum search path).
>---    Ullrich Fischer  phone (604) 684 9371  Vancouver, BC, Canada --- 
>                 Ullrich_Fischer@mindlink.uucp

I setup batch files for all the applications, which are called from 
WP's shell menu.  I setup all the batch files on the PRESUMTION that
everyone's FIRST drive on the network would be F.
(I'm running 386 v3.1, and connecting 100+ PC's that were and still are
used as stand alone machines)
Well, . . . notice my surpse, and frustration, when on PCs with 2 
physical hard disk drives and a ram drive running (?)msdos 3.3 or
Zenith dos 3.3plus their first network drive is G! not F.

That made me be more carefull in the future.  I setup a scratch drive: X
that I use for all batch/path statements.

Is there a way in Netware to specify what the FIRST drive will ALWAYS be?
(Setting lastdrive= in EVERY pc's config.sys is UNACCEPTABLE).

I'm down to one person who still has this problem, but he doesn't want
to change his system.  That's ok with me, but then I don't respond to 
his problem any more either :)
-- 
-gregory  	**	Just my two cents which shouldn't make a flame,
	  	**	unless you rub them real hard.
Navel Electronics System Engineering Center, San Diego
heflin@nosc.cod.mil