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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Subject: Re: Undocumented commands for MSDOS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.082224.3643@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
- References: <1duhj3INNa9c@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:22:24 GMT
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- bailey_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
-
- >I have found two undocumented commands for MS-DOS: "truename" which seems
- >to give the same output as "cd" on its own, and a /f switch for command.com
- >which seems to do something unspecified. Can anyone tell me what these two
- >do ?
-
- Truename gives the "fully qualified filespec" for the filespec that follows.
- So from my D:\TMP directory "truename ..\screen.cut" gives D:\SCREEN.CUT.
- And on a network or CD-ROM drive, you get stuff like \\name\volume\path.
-
- For instance on a Novell LAN I used to use "truename Y:dsz.com" would
- have given \\WSC_PDX1\USER1\PUBLIC\BIN\DSZ.COM which translates as
- Server: WSC_PDX1
- Volume: User1
- Path: \PUBLIC\BIN\
- File: DSZ.COM
-
- Try it on something that's been re-assigned via SUBST or ASSIGN or JOIN.
- It'll report the *real* path.
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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