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Subject: Re: Need virtual disk ==> directory program
Message-ID: <1986Oct28.180734.1429@utcs.uucp>
Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 18:07:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 28 18:07:34 1986
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In <3111@wateng.UUCP>, mjwingrove@wateng.uucp writes:

>What I need is a program which maps drive names (existing or virtual) to
>particular directories on a disk (especially a hard disk).  The program would 
>be such that it would stay resident once loaded, and hopefully allow the
>user to specify what directory to map a drive letter to through the use 
>of interactive commands.

>The purpose of this is to aid in the installation of programs on a hard disk.
>A lot of old programs don't support directories (quite a few new ones too!),
>and I would find it much more convienient when transferring a program to the 
>hard disk to keep the program and associated files (overlays etc.) in one 
>directory.  The data created would be stored in another directory.  Since 
>a lot of programs allow specification of where a file is created/loaded 
>from by disk letter identifier I felt a program such as described would be most
>useful.

I am not sure how you important the interactive function is to you,
and will not address that here, but the "subst" command in DOS 3.1 is
just the function you need.  This command allows you to assign any
drive to a directory.  You could perhaps work out the interactive part
in a batch file.

Hope this helps,

Mark T. Dornfeld
Royal Ontario Museum

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