Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:53:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Phaneuf Reply-To: pierre AT tycho DOT com To: Lorier cc: opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk 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