how do I assign drives in MSDOS window

[Elliott]

I have a MS DOS program which writes to the A: drive. I have a Zip
Drive (E:). How do I assign the letter A: to the zip drive to fool the
operating system to write to E: instead of A:??

please reply to: w...@westwoodcardio.com

thanks

[Derrick Carey]

I believe the subst.exe command can be used for creating a virtual path,
though I've never used it myself, and so don't know the syntax.

Elliott <w...@westwoodcardio.com> wrote in article
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[Pythonesque]

G'day mate, You can use the DOS utility Subst.exe to pseudo re-assign drive
letters to partitions and/or directories. I say pseudo, because you don't
actually re-assign it entirely, as you end up with a mirror copy to which an
alternative address has been assigned. Your DOS & Windoze pathways however,
will reflect the Zip drive as being A:, which is what you seem to want to do.
You can hide the original Zip letter in Windblows using TweakUI.

Please note that certain DOS utilities are not fooled by this change. FDISK,
for example, will still see the Zip as the original letter only, so take care
when formatting under DOS.

The syntax used by Subst.exe, is as follows;

To change X: to Y:, type 'subst X: Y:'

To check changes, type 'subst'

To remove changes, type 'subst X: /d'

(to verify the above syntax, type 'subst /?' at a DOS prompt)

I hope this helps mate,

Hamish

In article <36fbe1e8....@news.cybernex.net>,

w...@westwoodcardio.com (Elliott) wrote:
> I have a MS DOS program which writes to the A: drive. I have a Zip
> Drive (E:). How do I assign the letter A: to the zip drive to fool the
> operating system to write to E: instead of A:??
>
> please reply to: w...@westwoodcardio.com
>
> thanks
>

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