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- From: dnicola@cs.vu.nl (Nicolaas D)
- Subject: Re: Assign Help.
- Message-ID: <BzAytp.Axz@cs.vu.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
- Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
- References: <1992Dec14.023258.22874@nstn.ns.ca>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:29:49 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- GEN3037@Husky1.StMarys.Ca (DARREN JOHNSON) writes:
-
- >Can someone tell me how to assign one pathname to serve for another path.
-
- >[...]
- >I can only write to the directory c:\users\username and any subdirectories
- >after that, and this program wants to write to c:\program, which the network
- >won't let happen. So what I want is a way for when the program wants
- >to write to the root directory will actually write to users\username
- >(.ie make c:\program into c:\users\username.
-
- There are three MS-DOS programs which let you cheat with drive letters and
- path names: assign, subst and join.
- assign is used to assign another drive letter to a drive, e.g. assign a=c
- means that from now on every request for drive a: is redirected to c:.
- subst d: c:\tmp assigns drive letter d: to the path c:\tmp. every read or
- write to d:\ actually occurs on c:\tmp.
- join a: c:\tmp means that from now on every read/write on c:\tmp occurs on a:.
- This is called mounting in UNIX. c:\tmp needs to be empty before you
- execute the join.
- The problem is that join only works on directories in the root directory, so
- you can't join anything on c:\users\username. Another problem is that some
- of these utilities don't work on networks drives. See the DOS-manuals for
- details.
-
- So I don't think it will work with standard software. Anyway, these utilities
- are tricky since sometimes the directories in which they are cease to exist
- when you use them, so you can't undo things. I wouldn't experiment with them
- in a network.
-
- Maybe your network utilities can mount or link directories?
-
- >Thanks for any help.
-
-
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