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- From: scott@mycro.UUCP (Scott C. Sadow)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Assign Help.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.095901@mycro.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 09:59:01 EST
- References: <1992Dec14.023258.22874@nstn.ns.ca>
- Lines: 21
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- In article <1992Dec14.023258.22874@nstn.ns.ca>, usenet@nstn.ns.ca (NNTP Entity) writes:
- >Can someone tell me how to assign one pathname to serve for another path.
- >
- >I'm having a problem installing a program on my network account (novell).
- >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.
- >
- >Thanks for any help.
-
- try "SUBST D: C:\USERS\USERNAME". then when the program writes into
- "D:\PROGRAM", it will really be "C:\USERS\USERNAME\PROGRAM". (Instead of
- "D", you can use any other un-allocated drive. With Novell, "C", "D", and
- "E" are usually good drives for this sort of thing...
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- Scott C. Sadow
- scott@mycro.UUCP
- ...gatech!nanovx!mycro!scott
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