Actually, its just like Unix's mount/umount. They called it Volume Mount
Point. Volume mount points allow you to mount a local drive, (dos/windows
only?) partition, or volume at any empty folder on a local NTFS-formatted
partition or volume.
phreax
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From: "Nel C. Altoveros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 5:01 PM
Subject: [plug] Reinventing the wheel RE: LDAP & MySQL
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> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Kelsey Hartigan-Go wrote:
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> > 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
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> I think it's the other way around.
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> Nel
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> > > This went away with dos 6.x and windows/dos versions
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