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/ flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) /  3:31 am  Jan 12, 1991 / writes:

$ You're right: (I remembered/wrote it slightly wrong) it goes to the 2nd disk
$ for D then stays with the first disk.  The effect is the same tho, every
$ drive except c: gets relettered.
$ 
Just an interesting observation. I noticed that the SUBST command can move
drives around quite well. Assuming I have 4 hard disk partitions, C:, D:,
E: and F:. I can do the sequence :
			subst d: e:\
			subst d: f:\
... now I can refer to drive E: as D: and drive F: as E:. The only problem
is that the original drive D: is "invisible" now. If only we can swap the
drive assignment instead of just replacing.

However, it seems to me that if SUBST is able to do replacement, a little
extension should be able to get it to do swapping. And somehow, I believe
somebody has already done this out there. Anyone want to own up ?


$ If you want an analogy, UNIX doesn't make you refer to files by their
$ physical locations (/dev/dsk/1s3) but by names you select for the
$ partitions (/usr) instead.  DOS can do the same thing.
$
Well ....., UNIX uses the ONE ROOT directory model whereas MS-DOS uses the
multiple ROOTs (drives) model. So, it is not exactly the same. If you
prefer this (and assuming that JOIN works properly ---- somehow, I don't
quite trust this utility), try say join d: c:\usr (syntax ??). And join
every other drives to drive C: ... then you eliminate the drive letter 
problems  :-).


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