Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 22:29:55 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
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On Wed, 5 Feb 1997 mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:

> Yep, I think it should be possible to mount BOTH ways from the
> start.  I mean I for one love mounting under a subdir, but hey,
> this is DOS, and I don't want to see drive letters disappear
> either.  Both ways should be made possible from the start.

Why not?  Given that you must provide a formatted 'drive' a volume name,
you could give the name 'root' to your primary boot hard drive, and mount
other volume-names to a directory on your root.

ie, if you want to access your DJGPP files and they're on drive 'djgpp',
you just type:

mount djgpp

And volia!  You do a DIR of your and djgpp it there!

What makes this really neat is with the advent of removable media hard
drives, you could mount several volumes without their actually being in
the drive, the system would prompt you to insert the volume if you
accessed it and it wasn't in the drive.