Multiple floppies in one system? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Feb 2002

ASSIGN (with the format such as "assign a=c" -- no colons allowed)
"Instructs DOS to route disk I/O requests for one drive into disk I/O
requests for another drive" (IBM DOS 3.30 Ref Manual).

SUBST (with the format such as "subst g: c:\foo\bar") "Allows you to use a
different drive specifier to refer to another drive or path." It's useful
where a program does not recognize paths, but does recognize different drive
letters.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Quebbeman [mailto:dhquebbeman@theestopinalgroup.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 1:27 PM
To: &#39;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&#39;
Subject: RE: Multiple floppies in one system?

...
       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?)  
 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: 
Wow, sounds just like the DOS/CMD.EXE (NT, 2000) command called

  SUBST

as in identical syntax...

-dq