Software interface to drive/directory mapping

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From: ? pruss
Date: Tue, 29 May 1990 20:46

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Basically I am wondering what SUBST and JOIN actually do.

Is there some portable way of accessing the SUBST/JOIN data area?
I found it at a different address under DOS 3.3 and 4.01.  Also,
has the format of this data area been released?

It seems that this data area lists the actual unmapped drive:path
for each drive letter and indicates whether the mapping is from
drive:path -> letter or letter -> drive:path. 

I would be interested in a way of doing the drive/dir mapping under
software control.

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pruss@ria.ccs.uwo.ca     //    pruss@ria.UUCP

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From: pruss@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (? pruss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Software interface to drive/directory mapping
Summary: Hacker seeks to know how SUBST/JOIN work so he can duplicate them.
Keywords: Mess, DOS, MSDOS, PC, SUBST, JOIN, 3.3, 4.01, drive, dir, mapping, Microsoft data release
Message-ID: <431@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Date: 29 May 90 20:46:07 GMT
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Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
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