Friday March 10 1995, Mike Bilow writes to John Poltorak:

 JP>> device=nextdev.sys z

 JP>> This allowed a VDISK to be accessed as Z: . Unfortunately,
 JP>> it was a DOS program. Does anyone know of anything
 JP>> comparable for OS/2? I would like to have something like
 JP>> this for support situations, where I cannot know beforehand
 JP>> which letter will be allocated for the VDISK. Anyone fancy
 JP>> porting this little utility?

 MB> This is an EXTREMELY bad idea under OS/2.  Drive letters are assigned in
 MB> the order in which their drivers are loaded.  It is possible to write a
 MB> driver that simply reserves a bunch of drive letters when it loads, but it
 MB> would interfere with certain types of file system drivers.

My idea for using this type of device driver is purely for support
situations, and would probably only be used for booting from a floppy disk.
Having all the necessary files for a minimum OS/2 text mode session
available on a VDISK would allow much more flexibility for trouble shooting
than being reliant on just a floppy disk on its own.

John

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