Mail Archives: opendos/1997/04/18/15:25:34
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Lorier wrote:
> >Being the excessive kind of person I am, can we have single-rooted too?
> >;-) Both the cake *and* the icing! Or at least being able to mount a
> >drive into another drive's directory, like a pseudo-single-root. That
> >would help a lot for system administration of things like BBSes and web
> >sites, where you see you have too much stuff on a drive, buy another, have
> >to change all references from D: to E:... In all the 6,342 places.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what your saying but... I like the system of
> having one large directory tree... it's nice & neat... but it gets annoying
> when you have to copy files from /usr/local/lib/src/proggie/proggie.tgz to
> ~ftp/pub/linux/source/proggie/latest/ and gets even worse when you have
> multiple files that are all in the wrong places :) Having C:\ and D:\ and
> E:\ all point to the same place would be great, you could cd
> C:\usr/local/lib/src etc, have D: point to your ftp site etc... Although I
> spose you can almost do this with assign/subst/join....
It is just as annoying in DOS or in Linux here, even more so (I don't have
~ and ~user shortcuts and so on), because I only have one big partition!
Back when I was using command.com, I did my thing by basically keeping the
directory names short (like "etc", "sbin", "home"), and now that I use
bash, I use filename completion to get where I want quickly. In the past I
was the sysop of the BBS of the computer club of my college and we had a
200MB hard drive and a CD-ROM. When we added a 540MB drive to the thing,
it "shifted" the CD-ROM by one letter. Darn. I wished I had something like
Expect for DOS! Enter, down-arrow 3 times, enter, Delete, E, enter, esc,
Y, down-arrow, repeat all.
> While I'm here I'd like to put in a comment for adding functionality to
> Command.com (hmm http://command.com/ isn't taken, someone want to register
> it for caldera/opendos?), I love the extra functionality 4dos allows, but
> unfortunately I don't spend so much time in dos... For Opendos to have Batch
> scripting of a level at least partially that of 4dos you would have a very
> powerfull language. I don't like the way Microsoft has dumbed Command.com
> down to the level of intolerable idiocy in its latest operating systems.
True. bash is available for free in the v2gnu directory of any DJGPP
mirror, filename BSH*B.ZIP. ;-)
Pierre Phaneuf
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