Obscure DOS question

[John Foust]

At 05:46 PM 3/30/2005, 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?) 

We seem to be going around in circles on this one.  

I'll also wonder if it fails because there's no COMMAND.COM (or other 
system files) to reload on the suggested SUBST folder, and that it 
might succeed if it's there.  

Another trick might be to set up networking and share the C: root, 
and remove files dynamically as they show up during the restore process.

- John