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In <1992Dec15.004138.9571@ac.dal.ca> glad@ac.dal.ca writes:
>> Anyone able to tell me how to mess with the messydos lastdrive parameter
>> which can be set in config.sys ? I want to overcome a very boring
>> "feature" of silverplatter "multiplatter" which absolutely insists that
>> the lastdrive be set to J - this makes network login a pain and the
>> cdserver is on the network.

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>So, with that in mind, you can see the difficulty in trying to change the
>lastdrive environment variable; since DOS allocates the memory needed to
>store environment information about drives when it reads config.sys file
>on boot-up.  So, to my knowledge, you can't change the lastdrive after
>the system starts.  Let me know if you find a way around this, though.

Bzzzzz.  Thank you for playing.  :-)  Well, not to be unkind, but there
really is a way to do this, if you use QEMM for your upper memory manager.
QEMM includes a utility which is intended for you to be able to load the
stuff about lastdrive, among other parameters, into upper memory, and they
are done after boot time.  QEMM includes a utility called LASTDRIV.EXE
which will change the last drive the system knows about.  I use it so that
when I don't have my network installed, I don't chomp up as much memory,
but when I load the network, I use LASTDRIV to allocate more drives, and
then access all of the network drives.

Mickey Ferguson -- Rolm -- FergusoM at scrvm2 -- mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com