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
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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...

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