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First post, by magestic

Posted on 2024-06-23, 05:22

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?when installer wants its files from the a:\ drive, how to get around this

Reply 1 of 3, by Zup

Posted on 2024-06-23, 05:44

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In real DOS, you can use SUBST.

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Reply 2 of 3, by magestic

Posted on 2024-06-23, 06:15

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Zup wrote on 2024-06-23, 05:44:

In real DOS, you can use SUBST.

nice thankyou

Reply 3 of 3, by Jo22

Posted on 2024-06-23, 06:19

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+1
SUBST and ASSIGN can be used for these things.

https://www.loewenhagen.de/DOS/subst.html
https://www.loewenhagen.de/DOS/assign.html

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