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In article <9456@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes:

   In article <431@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> pruss@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (? pruss) writes:
   }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?

   Yes, there is a portable way of accessing it.  No, the format has not 
   officially been released.  However, it is described in INTER290.ZIP.

Yeah, but you have to be very careful about *what* you mount *where*.
Basically, DOS gets very upset if you try to join a network drive, or
if you try to join something anywhere but root, or if the directory
you're joining it to doesn't exist, ad nauseum.  JOIN does an awful lot
of checking before it tells you "bad parameter".  Real *good* error
message, that.

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