Obscure DOS question

Sat Apr 2 13:56:15 CST 2005

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:

> Couldn't you use the DOS subst command to fake out the C: drive to some
> higher-level folder, i.e. make your D:\scratch folder into the C: drive?
>  Directories don't have the filesystem limits that the root directory of
> C: does.
>
> This of course, would 'map over' your C: drive (is that allowed by subst
> ?)

DOS 3.3 doesn't allow this, otherwise the solution would've been simple ;)

-- 

Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Man of Intrigue and Danger                http://www.vintage.org

[ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers   ]
[ and academia at www.VintageTech.com  || at http://marketplace.vintage.org  ]