bradley.grigor@canremote.uucp (BRADLEY GRIGOR) (03/26/90)
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes re: Swap directories (was Re: Need input for future DOS release) do>Not exactly the same, but even more useful, and possible right now: do>Just make sure you have enough do>spare drive letters, and put something like do> subst E: C:\ do>in your autoexec.bat. Then you can change to e:\firstdir and do>c:\anotherdir, and have easy access to both just by typing a couple do>of letters. In fact, I don't know why anyone uses any other form of do>the subst command. SUBST is a very handy PORTABILITY TRICK when you work with more than one computer system, on a network for example. My two computers are connected by a serial network. I use the SUBST drive letters as a "system-independent" way to represent common subdirectories. E.g. I can move batch files between the machines and be guaranteed that drive letter L:, for example, will access the same files from either system. bradley.grigor@canremote.uucp : ALEX is coming to Toronto in April. Newmarket, Ontario, Canada : TelePoker will be there - will YOU? --- ~ DeLuxe 1.11 #4613 If at first you don't succeed, try second!