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- ASSIGN (1) 08 August 1995 ASSIGN (1)
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- NAME
- assign - Assign a drive letter to a different drive
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- SYNOPSIS
- assign [/m] [/shadow] /?
- assign [/m] [/shadow] /status
- assign [/m] [/shadow] /u
- assign [/m] [/shadow] [{ dr1[:]=dr2[:] }]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Assign maps a drive letter to a different drive. This
- mapping effects only the drive letter, but not the path,
- what makes Assign different to Subst, e.g.:
- With the current working paths "C:\FREEDOS" and "B:\TEMP"
- after the commands "assign B=C" and "cd C:\", the path "B:"
- also points to the directory "C:\".
- Whereas after the commands "subst B: ." and "cd C:\", the
- path "B:" still points to "C:\FREEDOS".
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- Because this program is no TSR, do not load it via the
- "LOADHIGH" or the "LH" command.
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- OPTIONS
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- /? Display a little help screen.
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- /SHADOW This option hides the resident portion of Assign from
- being detected easily. That includes:
- 1) The memory block containing the resident portion is
- marked as a part of the system.
- 2) The installation check interrupt returns "Not installed,
- but not allowed to install" rather than "Installed" or "Not
- installed".
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- If the resident portion is installed with this option, but
- subsequent invokations are made without this option, a
- warning pops up, but the action is performed.
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- The option may be abbreviated down to /SH.
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- /STATUS Display all assigned drive letters in the form:
- dr1: => dr2:
- where dr1 is the assigned drive letter and dr2 the drive,
- where dr1 points to.
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- If there is no assigment at all, no output will be
- displayed.
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- This option prevents the loading of the resident portion, if
- it has not already been installed.
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- The option may be abbreviated down to /S.
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- /u Uninstall a previously installed Assign.
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- ASSIGN (1) 08 August 1995 ASSIGN (1)
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- dr1[:]=dr2[:] This defines a drive letter assignment, where dr1
- shall point to dr2. The colons ":" are optional. There are
- no whitespaces allowed between the drive letters, the colons
- and the equal sign '='.
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- If the resident portion is not already loaded, it will be
- loaded without further notice.
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- /m Move the resident portion into the UMB area, if possible.
- This option is ignored, when the resident portion is already
- installed.
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- no option If there is neither /STATUS nor /u nor an assignment
- specified on the command line, all existing assignments are
- broken, so that all letters point to themselfs in result.
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- KNOWN BUGS
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- o Because Assign is no TSR itself, a loading with one of the
- commands "LOADHIGH" or "LH" may fail. If you want to load
- the resident portion high, you must specify the /m option.
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- o The options /STATUS and /SHADOW do not follow the option
- standard because of compatibly to the original Assign.
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- o Later installed TSR's or a secondary command processor
- (shell) mostly prevent the uninstall process. In this case,
- Assign is not suspended, but remains active in memory. Use
- ASSIGN without any option to clear the assignment table
- instead.
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- o Some shells prevent that ASSIGN finds its resident copy in
- memory, if ASSIGN is installed from a secondary copy of the
- shell.
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- SEE ALSO
- Subst, Join
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- CONTRIBUTERS
- Steffen Kaiser
- Mittelstraße 112/B115
- 53757 Sankt Augustin - Menden
- Deutschland - Germany
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- e-mail: Steffen.Kaiser@FH-Rhein-Sieg.DE
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