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Article #4099Re: Subst Command
From: Gunnar Dahlstrom
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1991 21:42
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1991 21:42
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In article <1990Dec31.204151.5378@uvm.edu> opergb@uvm.edu (Gary Bushey) writes: >Raymond-Protection: enabled > >I am trying to get our ATT 386sx/EL computers to think that the A drive is the >B drive during boot up so that people can't boot off of the floppy. > >I have been able to do this by switching cables and changing the setup so >the computer thinks it has a B drive. > >the problem is that to get the B drive to become the A drive (this is done >so that novice users are not confused), we have to use the SUBST command from >DOS. The problem arises in that there must be a diskette in the drive in order >to substitute it. We have been able to get around the error which states there >is no diskette present but SUBST returns the error that the path is not found. > >Does anyone know how SUBST works so that we may write a psuedo command to >subst the B drive for the A drive? Why not try the assign command ? I use assign when i install program from B: drive but the install program expect to find itself in A:, so try assign B=A. =============================================================================== Gunnar Dahlstrom Chalmers University of Technology Div. Building Technology 412 96 Gothenbourg, Sweden E-Mail: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se ===============================================================================
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!chalmers.se!afs-news!trout!dahlstr From: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se (Gunnar Dahlstrom) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Subst Command Keywords: Subst C Message-ID: <1991Jan2.214221.374@afs-news.utc.chalmers.se> Date: 2 Jan 91 21:42:21 GMT References: <1990Dec31.204151.5378@uvm.edu> Sender: news@afs-news.utc.chalmers.se (News System) Reply-To: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se () Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Lines: 28