Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/10/05:15:19
On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
> > > or, another solutin which I saw in some FAT FS extension a few years ago,
> > > to use the unused dirent space to store more letters for filename.
> >
> > Sure, and why not add support to go beyond 26 drive letters as
> > well. I've allways found that to be too limiting. How about
> > something like this:
> >
> > SYS$DISKDRIVENUMBER1:[UTILS\NORTON]>
> >
> > That would be cool!
> Hmm.. certainly, but why not to stay at what average DOS user is used to -
> drive letters? Just use two-letter codes when needed (AA, AB, AC). Well, it
> might be a little confusing, but from my experience I know that people are
> more afraid of digits than letters (and we can't forget that the system is
> very likely to be used by complete newbies /to be gentle ;-))/)
I was joking. :o) I don't think more drive letters are needed
for any reason at all as long as the MOUNT utility is made
available in DOS. Drive letters like "AA:" wouldn't be
compatible with existing software anyways, and how would you hack
it so that they _would_ work? It would be really messy. By the
way, my SYS$WHATEVER example above was a joke too. It was a kick
at VMS.
> > Then to go to the next drive you would type:
> >
> > SYS$DISKDRIVENUMBER1:[UTILS\NORTON]> SYS$DISKDRIVENUMBER2:
> Or 'AB' ;-)
Sounds like it is prone to a lot of problems to me.
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