[ Quoting KENNETH ABRAMS to SCOTT LITTLE ] 
 SL> told OS2 just can't do that. Eg. someone told me 16meg was a
 SL> pitifully small amount of memory to run OS2 on.
 KA> Thanks to the proliferation of bloatware, 16M is pitifully small for 
 KA> running anything beyond DOS on these days.
Excuses, excuses.
However, I was under the impression (according to OS2 drivel) that only
Windows based software can be classified as "bloatware"! Since when has the
almighty OS2 had bloatware?
 
 SL> My latest problem is assigning a letter to a CDROM, rather than have
 SL> OS2 do everything for me. Seems v3 can't do that. I have to resort
 KA> You know, I've never been able to understand why it's so important to 
 KA> some people that they be able to assign a drive letter to their CD.
People who like to keep maintainance and confusion at a minimum, usually like
to have some sort of standard.
  
 KA> Do you assign drive letters to your hard drive partitions?
Indirectly. When partitioning a drive, I keep in mind what drives I want to
put things.
 KA> Why is that not  a problem for you? What makes a CD so special?
Because I run a BBS. The CDROM is always I drive, the BBS software itself
is on X, the filebase is on Y, and the mail and file database files are on
Z.
I designed it this way because I found myself having to change a lot of
data whenever I decide I want to put something on another drive/partition.
All those letters are constant throughout the network. If something is in
I:\APPS on one computer, it's in exactly the same place on the other.
 KA> Yes, under DOS, MSCDEX, the kludge that lets CD's work at all,
Why do you have this fascination with the word KLUDGE? It's a driver. Call
it one.
 
 KA> Some people create minimum sized RAM drives to fill enough letters to
 KA> bump the CD to where they want it.
"OS/2, unlike Windoze, lets me work the way *I* want" - OS/2 bigot.
 KA> So, if it's *that* important to  you, it can be done under Warp3
Via two different IFS' that I've seen. One is the EXT2 IFS which includes
a drive re-mapping driver - for which the docs are so poor they don't even
specify the syntax, and the other is just SUBST for OS2, which is a stand-
alone IFS.
 KA> Warp4 has a reservedriveletter setting  that accomplishes the same
 KA> goal without the RAM. 
The thing that annoys me is that OS2 has a dialog that presents you with a
"list" of drive letters to assign the drive. Yet only the one letter per
installed device is available. Weird! Perhaps the programmer forgot to
finish that bit?
Regards,
 - Scott
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