Date: Mon, 27 Jan 97 18:21:49 MST
Message-Id: <9701280121.AA05455@rgfn.epcc.Edu>
From: av568 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu (Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church)
To: mharris AT sympatico DOT ca
Subject: Re: [opendos] Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! (fwd)
Cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
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>
>On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
>
>That is VERY scary.  I will never understand why no one likes multiple
>DOS partitions.  I have 1000 disk drive letters and I kinda like it.
>I switch between drives in 4DOS by typing ALT-<driveletter>.  Really
>cool.
>
>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.


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