> Okay, but I have to ask ... do you use MS-DOS SUBST or (also) FreeDOS? I use
> both depending on the exact circumstances, but generally prefer FreeDOS
> SWSUBST. A lot of MS-DOS utilities have the version issue where they worn't
> work across different DOS versions whereas the after-market stuff like what
> comes with FreeDOS is much more universal. On the other hand, some of the
> MS-DOS utilities do things that I sometimes need that the generic utilities
> don't (like disk sector sizes > 512 bytes in the kernel and the various disk
> utilities, and I/O port virtualization in EMM386). So, I generally mix and
> match the different utilities depending on what I'm ultimately trying to
> accomplish. Specifically regarding as SUBST and ASSIGN, it doesn't really
> matter to me whether they're in BASE or somewhere else, but since MS had them
> in their "BASE" I think they should probably stay there. I also agree that
> they may not be used all that often (or even at all) by most people, but
> that's kind of irrelevant. They are very useful things to have in certain
> situations. MS obviously thought there was a need or they never would have
> written them in the first place, and the the ones who "copied" them must have
> saw a need as well. You wouldn't take time to write a program that simply
> copied what somebody else did if you thought it was useless the first time.
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