ti@altos86.Altos.COM (Ti Kan) (10/02/90)
I have a large hard disk (190MB) which is now partitioned into
logical drives c: through h: with MS-DOS 3.30. I would like
to be able to access the drives d: through h: while on c:
via directory paths. For example, "cd c:\d" brings me to d:\,
and "type c:\d\file" will actually display d:\file.
This is exactly the converse of what the DOS "subst" command
allows. Is there any commercial/public domain software that
allows me to do this? If not, any suggestions on how I can
write a program to do this?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
-Ti
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+-In article <4132@altos86.Altos.COM>, | ti@altos86.Altos.COM (Ti Kan) wrote: | | I have a large hard disk (190MB) which is now partitioned into | logical drives c: through h: with MS-DOS 3.30. I would like | to be able to access the drives d: through h: while on c: | via directory paths. For example, "cd c:\d" brings me to d:\, | and "type c:\d\file" will actually display d:\file. | +---------- This is exactly what the DOS command "join" does. Read your manual. -- larry hastings, the galactic funkster, funkstr@ucscb.ucsc.edu I don't speak for Knowledge Dynamics or UC Santa Cruz, nor do they speak for me
mhoffman@encore.com (Mike Hoffman) (10/02/90)
From article <4132@altos86.Altos.COM>, by ti@altos86.Altos.COM (Ti Kan): > to be able to access the drives d: through h: while on c: > via directory paths. For example, "cd c:\d" brings me to d:\, > and "type c:\d\file" will actually display d:\file. > This is exactly the converse of what the DOS "subst" command > allows. Try the DOS "join" command. It is similar to the Unix "mount" command and will do exactly what you ask. Michael J. Hoffman ...uunet!gould!mhoffman Manufacturing Engineering mhoffman@encore.com Encore Computer Corporation
otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) (10/02/90)
In article <4132@altos86.Altos.COM> ti@altos86.Altos.COM (Ti Kan) writes:
I have a large hard disk (190MB) which is now partitioned into
logical drives c: through h: with MS-DOS 3.30. I would like
to be able to access the drives d: through h: while on c:
via directory paths. For example, "cd c:\d" brings me to d:\,
and "type c:\d\file" will actually display d:\file.
This is exactly the converse of what the DOS "subst" command
allows. Is there any commercial/public domain software that
allows me to do this? If not, any suggestions on how I can
write a program to do this?
I'm not sure about DOS 3.30, but my DOS 4.01 system has JOIN which
does exactly this.
If you go for DOS 4.01, you won't need half a dozen drives...
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In article <4132@altos86.Altos.COM> ti@altos86.Altos.COM (Ti Kan) writes: >I have a large hard disk (190MB) which is now partitioned into >logical drives c: through h: with MS-DOS 3.30. I would like >to be able to access the drives d: through h: while on c: >via directory paths. For example, "cd c:\d" brings me to d:\, >and "type c:\d\file" will actually display d:\file. >This is exactly the converse of what the DOS "subst" command >allows. Is there any commercial/public domain software that >allows me to do this? If not, any suggestions on how I can >write a program to do this? > Try this: JOIN D: C:\D That will make drive D a subdirectory called D on drive C. Cheers! Steve -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- steve.resnick@f105.n143.z1.FIDONET.ORG - or - apple!camphq!105!steve.resnick Flames, grammar errors, spelling errrors >/dev/nul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Pinard) (10/03/90)
In article <4132@altos86.Altos.COM> ti@altos86.Altos.COM (Ti Kan) writes:
I would like to be able to access the drives d: through h: while on
c: via directory paths.
The `join' utility does exactly what you want. It is part of DOS, but
probably not on version 2. or lower. Look at your manuals. :-)
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