Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!unisoft!gethen!farren
From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Needed: a dummy device driver
Keywords: MSDOS device driver
Message-ID: <1070@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 88 20:50:38 GMT
References: <2950@dalcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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In article <2950@dalcs.UUCP> lane@dalcs.UUCP (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane) writes:
>Well, I like to create a logical drive D: and SUBST it to one of my sub-
>directories.  Trouble arises if I wand to use a RAM disk or some such be-
>cause the driver for that wants to grab the D: identifier.

Why not do as I do, and use Z:?  Set LASTDRIVE=Z in your config.sys, and
off you go.  Chances that you'll ever have 26 block storage devices on
your system are fairly slim, methinks.

-- 
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        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame