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Switching around drive letters

#455
From: Jeff Epler
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 21:04
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Here's the deal:
I have a system with floppies A,B.  Hard drive C, Stacker D (These two
are exchanged via SSWAP).  I use subst to make e: my download directory.

I want to add another device driver (The program VGADISK.SYS) so that I
can use this drive (Obviously, since it would be silly to just waste the
memory.).  

It wants to install as drive E:, where my several terminal programs and
a couple unarchiver batches plan on looking for my download directory.

I (thought) I got smart, and used the following SUBST commands:

subst g: e:\
subst e: d:\dl
subst f: c:\jeff

However, when I have 4DOS do a directory of g: (Should be a 176K drive)<
I get the same free-space figure as for the drive that is C. (The stac
drive.)  I don't get any sort of directory to go with it, but I do get
the same number of bytes free.

Is it okay to use my drive G?  Will it write to the correct place?  Is
there a different command I should be using?

It doesn't really say in the manual that this is forbidden, but it seems
like something that will leave DOS confused, at best.

Oh,BTW, it's Ms-DOS V5.0.

Replies by E-mail are probably preferred by everybody else in the
newsgroup, but I read it enough that I ought to see your responses...
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