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From: | "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Displaying volumename in prompt |
Date: | Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:09:41 -0600 |
Organization: | Greater New Orleans Free-Net |
Lines: | 12 |
Message-ID: | <Pine.GSO.3.95.961223230734.3071D-100000@sparkie.gnofn.org> |
References: | <5974bk$j7e$2 AT tornix DOT tornado DOT be> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 961222110342 DOT 20524B-100000 AT sparkie DOT gnofn DOT org> <32BD8ACF DOT 5782 AT exis DOT net> <32BE10CB DOT 7AB0 AT cs DOT com> |
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In-Reply-To: | <32BE10CB.7AB0@cs.com> |
To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, John M. Aldrich wrote: > > Using the volume name in place of the idiotic C: designator would please > > me no end. Assuming we are all playing some flavor of MSDOS (why djgpp > > otherwise?), one of us, some of us or all of us ought to write shell.com > > to replace (and eliminate for all time) COMMAND.COM forever. > > Shouldn't SMARTDRV in read cache mode eliminate the time needed to > search the volume label? if enough operations occur to require SMARTDRV to flush the buffer...
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