From:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date:	Tue, 28 Jan 1997 06:51:37 -0500 (EST)
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To:	Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church <av568 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu>
cc:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject:	Re: [opendos] Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! (fwd)
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On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church wrote:

> >Hmmm.  Remember the old DOS JOIN command?  Does anyone know what
> >became of it?  Sounds a lot like "mount" to me.  If so, one could
> >divide a disk into 4 256M partitions and then "mount" the D drive
> >under C:\games, the E: drive under C:\bin, etc...  I would definately
> >like to know if someone has the source for JOIN and if they could send
> >it to me.
> >
> 
> Microsloth removed ASSIGN, SUBST, and JOIN from MS-DOS because they were 
> "complicated" and "archaic." They can still be found on the Supplemental 
> Disks, however, which may be found somewhere deep in the tangled forest 
> of ftp.microsoft.com. When I upgraded from DOS v3.11 to v6.22 (read: from 
> a really crappy computer to a newer one :) and found these commands 
> removed, I downloaded the Supplemental Disks ASAP. :)
> 
> If you can't find the Disks (as is likely) I can uuencode or mime it to you.

Yes, please do!  I'm running 6.22 and don't have any supplemental
disks.  In fact I've never heard of them.  SUBST was included with my
6.22 though.  I've never needed JOIN until now (I want to try out
something).  ASSIGN is pretty useless I think.

Does OpenDOS come with JOIN?  If I include JOIN in my setup, I will
surely want to use JOIN in OpenDOS.  If it doesn't come with OD, is
there a supplemental disk for OD?  :o)  Or will the 6.22 binary run
with OD?

Thanks.  Oh, BTW my address has changed.  It's now the blackwidow one.


Mike A. Harris        |             http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris
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