On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Ian C.Sison wrote:
> >
> > directory splicing
> >
> > it basically means that you can attach a filesystem anywhere on a
> > directory tree!! this eliminates the need for drive letters altogether and
> > is another major enhancement to Windoze from the go-get'em guys at
> > Micro$oft.
>
> Actually they are reinventing themselves. Dos 3.3 had a 'join' (or was it
> attach?) utility that does just that...
join allows you to substitute drives, say C: to A:
while subst allows you to map a drive to a subdirectory.
say a:\ to c:\drivea
> This went away with dos 6.x and windows/dos versions
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