From: david AT coent DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (David Coe) Subject: Re: get rid of drive letters! 17 Jul 1997 19:56:23 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33CE69A9.6B85.cygnus.gnu-win32@coent.demon.co.uk> References: <19970716203725 DOT 28627 DOT qmail AT lucifer DOT guardian DOT no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: ssb AT guardian DOT no Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com ssb AT guardian DOT no wrote: > > I guess a lot of people have problems with the braindead drive letters > from DOS when using gnu-win32. What about solving this by making a > new drive, let's say U: (for universal) that maps all other drives as > subdirectories and has support for symbolic links? This is the way > the drive problem was solved on the Atari's multitasking extension > (MiNT), and it works great as soon as you get symlinks for /bin etc. > > I suppose writing such a virtual filesystem is a breeze for someone > who knows how to do such things in Windows. Since I don't I pass on > the idea to you guys, hoping that you'll like it enough to implement > it. As long as you only stay within gnu-win32, from bash: mount \\\\.\\f: /drive/f mount \\\\.\\g: /drive/g or wherever... -- Dr David Coe \=\ 58 Fairlawn Drive, East Grinstead \=\ Tel +44 1342 326860 West Sussex, RH19 1NT, United Kingdom \=\ Fax +44 1342 316019 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".