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- From: johnboyd@ocdis01.UUCP (John Boyd)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: UNIX-style links under MS-DOS
- Keywords: link DOS unix
- Message-ID: <168@ocdis01.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 14:16:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.194149.26386@netcom.com>
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- Organization: Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma
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- In article <1993Jan27.194149.26386@netcom.com> gurgle@netcom.com (Pete Gontier) writes:
- ->
- ->A good suggestion, put foward by several people, was to use the DOS
- ->SUBST or JOIN command in whatever way was appropriate. Apparently
- ->SUBST lets you assign a drive letter to an arbitrary directory,
- ->which means I could "alias" C:\FOO\BAR\BAZ\QUUX to Q:.
- ->Specifying Q: to the compiler would be a lot shorter than the
- ->pathname. Apparently JOIN is similar to UNIX mount.
-
- But when I recently helped a friend install Windows, we had to remove all
- the 'subst' lines (according to the Windows install program). What can be
- done in that case? And yes, admittedly, that was the first time I'd
- installed Windows, so I might have been erring on the side of conservatism,
- when it really _was_ OK to do it.
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