Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at Marlow.com
Sun Feb 8 11:06:02 CST 2009
Join the club, pocket protectors are on the table in the corner! ;) Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 6:03 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] The Money Drive (WAS: OT: I'm old) Hi Drew OK, you are a true geek. I did know of subst - use it exactly for the purpose you describe, to simulate a (network) drive - but not that it accepts non-drive letters for drive letters. This one is really fun: SUBST :: C:\Windows Now you can make a dir ::\*.ini - but in the command window only, Explorer doesn't like it! /gustav >>> DWUTKA at marlow.com 06-02-2009 23:33 >>> For S & G's, I did a googling about drive letters, to see if there was anything out there about A and B drives that didn't have to do with older computers usually having one or two floppy drives... Nope, that's the real deal. No other mystical explanation. (Most people don't realize why IP addresses are four quads of 0 to 255... ;) ) Anyhow, in reading the pages I found, I discovered something VERY interesting about SUBST. For those of you who do not know, SUBST is a DOS command (but works in XP and Vista too), that allows you to 'create' a virtual drive off of a physical folder. For example, let's say you have a network drive 'T:' at work. And you have an application that depends on files being at T:\SomeFolder\*.* . Well if you create a folder on your C: drive, and call it TDrive (Thus C:\TDrive) then copy that 'SomeFolder' into that TDrive folder. Then, from a DOS prompt, you can put in: SUBST T: C:\TDrive And Whalla, you now have a T: drive, that is really the 'C:\TDrive' folder. Anywho...the neat thing I found out about SUBST that I never knew, is that SUBST actually let's you use non-alpha (some of them...) characters to create these 'virtual' drive letters. They don't appear to show up in Explorer though (at least not in Vista). I have a folder on my C drive called 'Downloads'. So in a dos prompt, the following command: SUBST $: C:\Downloads Allowed me to then go: $: Which gave me a: $:\ Prompt, which I could then do a DIR in, and it listed the contents of my 'money' drive! LOL Ok, I'm a geek! ;) Drew -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com The information contained in this transmission is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain II-VI Proprietary and/or II-VI Business Sensitive material. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. You are notified that any review, retransmission, copying, disclosure, dissemination, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited.