28 Feb
2002
28 Feb
'02
5:51 a.m.
At 11:03 AM 2/28/02 +0000, Sellam wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
It would also let you assign paths in place of drives. I remember once
that I had internet SW installation program that was VERY slow and it kept
gringing and grinding on the floppy srives. After 20 minuates or so I
aborted it and copied the files from the floppy disks to a directory on my
hard drive then typed something like ASSIGN A: = C:\TEMP then went to the
TEMP directory and ran the INSTALL program. After that it went back to the
TEMP directory everytime it needed a file. It worked perfectly.
Joe
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Joe wrote:
The MS-DOS ASSIGN command let you assign a drive letter for a drive, sort
of like an alias.
I think the syntax was:
ASSIGN D: C:
Meaning D: would be the equivalent of C: The Assign command works wonders in cases like
these. Unfortunately
MicroSoulth dropped it from their later versions of DOS. Still you can
probaly use a copy from an older DOS and use other DOS cammand (that I
can't think of the name of) to fake it into thinking that it's running
under it's native DOS version.
Could you be thinking of 'setver' (or was it called something else?)