[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Swap directories

dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) (03/23/90)

In article <5456.26090ce4@uwovax.uwo.ca> 2011_552@uwovax.uwo.ca (Terry Gaetz (UWO Astronomy)) writes:
>
>15a) Swap two directories.  I am most frequently jumping back and forth
>     between two directories (eg. source directory and test directory).
>     It would save a lot of typing if DOS remembered the previous 
>     directory and allowed one to jump back to it:
>        c:\firstdir> cd \anotherdir
>        c:\anotherdir> swapd
>        c:\firstdir> swapd
>        c:\anotherdir>         [etc.]
>     This can be handled by a batch file, but I think DOS should do it.

Not exactly the same, but even more useful, and possible right now:  

Just make sure you have enough
spare drive letters, and put something like
  subst E: C:\
in your autoexec.bat.  Then you can change to e:\firstdir and c:\anotherdir,
and have easy access to both just by typing a couple of letters.  In fact, I
don't know why anyone uses any other form of the subst command.

Duncan Murdoch