[comp.sys.amiga] IBM partitions aren't all that bad

sean@ukma.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) (11/20/86)

Although I've never used it, there is a facility in recent versions of
MSDOS (I know it's in 3.1) to allow you to assign a drive to a given directory
name in your directory tree.  This is similar to mounting a Unix file system
to a directory.  So you could do something like:

assign C: /sources

And anytime you referenced /sources/*, it would know to look for it on
drive C.  I'm not sure of the syntax, but I have read about the command
and a friend of mine has used it.  It works with ramdisks too!

I'm not an MSDOS advocate (quite the opposite), but lets not complain
that MSDOS partitions are a pain.  If you mount them into a file system,
you get something that is no harder to use than a single partition system.

Now if only someone would write a shell that would make the Amiga look
and feel like a Unix file system... It sure would make a lot of Unix people
happy, and it would sell like crazy.

Sean
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