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Re: Need virtual disk ==> directory program

#8651
From: R.D.Eager
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1986 01:03
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In article <3111@wateng.UUCP> mjwingrove@wateng.UUCP (Mike Wingrove) writes:
>
>What I need is a program which maps drive names (existing or virtual) to
>particular directories on a disk (especially a hard disk).  The program would 
>be such that it would stay resident once loaded, and hopefully allow the
>user to specify what directory to map a drive letter to through the use 
>of interactive commands.

With later versions of MS/PC-DOS (certainly 3.2, maybe 3.x) there are
two commands to do this function and indeed the 'inverse'; JOIN and
SUBST.

-- 
           Bob Eager

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From: rde@ukc.ac.uk (R.D.Eager)
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Subject: Re: Need virtual disk ==> directory program
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Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 20:03:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 30 20:03:27 1986
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Keywords: virtual, directory