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  • Subst Command

    From ROB MCCART@VERT/CAPCITY2/CAPCITY to NIGHTFOX on Tue Oct 5 14:51:00 2010
    :) I had forgotten about that command myself.. And for some reason, I though
    >I had used that command in plain DOS, but a site I found said that command is
    >only available in Windows 2000 SP4 and up.

    I have several Win98 machines running Subst and I used to run it
    on Win95 machines as well. When I exit fully to DOS, which those
    operating systems have a full working version of, my substituted
    drives are still there and accessable through all DOS programs.
    (Config.sys probably needs a LASTDRIVE=Z Command to handle it.)
    The Subst setup must be in the Autoexec.bat file for it to take
    effect in those OS's though. There may have been changes to later
    versions of that Command for OS's that didn't live on top of DOS.
    It was definitely supplied with the Windows OS though..
    Don't recall if it existed in Win 3.x or not..

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  • From Nightfox to ROB MCCART on Wed Oct 6 09:43:38 2010
    Re: Subst Command
    By: ROB MCCART to NIGHTFOX on Tue Oct 05 2010 14:51:00

    Don't recall if it existed in Win 3.x or not..

    Since Windows 3.x ran on DOS, I would think it would have been there too.

    Nightfox
  • From Mordor@VERT to Nightfox on Tue Oct 12 09:14:00 2010
    Re: Subst Command
    By: Nightfox to ROB MCCART on Wed Oct 06 2010 09:43 am

    Re: Subst Command
    By: ROB MCCART to NIGHTFOX on Tue Oct 05 2010 14:51:00

    Don't recall if it existed in Win 3.x or not..

    Since Windows 3.x ran on DOS, I would think it would have been there too.

    Nightfox

    I just checked my DOS6.22 Win 3.11 machine and yes, the SUBST command is
    there.

    Jeff in Australia.

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