[ Quoting Mack Barss to Scott Little ] 
 KA> Do you assign drive letters to your hard drive partitions?
 SL> Indirectly. When partitioning a drive, I keep in mind what drives I
 SL> want to put things.
 MB> No Scott... you don't assign drive letters to your hard drive... FDISK
 MB> does that.
Well, DUH.
 MB> Deciding what partition to put things on (software) can
 MB> only be done after FDISK has assigned the partitions drive letters.
That's why I said INDIRECTLY. If I want to put my databases on drive E, then
I will make sure I make the 200 meg partition the second one (D drive is the
slave) on the master HDD. Otherwise, either SUBST or NET USE does all the
'assigning' I need.
 MB> And thats why you use SUBST in Win95, because you can't MAP a local
 MB> drive like in OS/2 Warp Connect, WinNT, Lantastic, etc.
Yes. And I was also complaining about OS2 not having SUBST included. OS2's
networking is a little.. um... 'overweight'. I WAS going to run the BBS on
8 meg, but I borrowed 16 from the other computer so now NET USE is fine.
 
 KA> So, if it's *that* important to  you, it can be done under Warp3
 SL> Via two different IFS' that I've seen. One is the EXT2 IFS which
 SL> includes a drive re-mapping driver - for which the docs are so poor
 SL> they don't even specify the syntax, and the other is just SUBST for
 SL> OS2, which is a stand- alone IFS.
 MB> SUBST is not a IFS... it is a command and it uses the file system that
 MB> you have (ie FAT, VFAT, etc).  
You aren't reading, as usual. Read line number 1. Doesn't that suggest I am
inquiring about SUBST under OS2?
SUBST under OS2 is via an IFS. The SUBST that comes with it is DOS only, and
does not work for the rest of OS2. The IFS one works globally, covering all
of OS2 and all DOS sessions.
Regards,
 - Scott
[ admin@cyberia.asstdc.com.au | www.asstdc.com.au/~cyberia ]
--- FMail/2 1.22
3:712/848)
---------------