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Some of the good old DOS program can make our life far easier if all we have to do is just stop neglecting them. In this session I am explaining about a few useful DOS programs that ships even in 9x versions of Windows. Say you have a folder here: “C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\VB98\ZEESOFT\MYPROJECTS” isn’t it eh to go down to that folder to retrieve a file from that folder. Even if you have made a shortcut to that folder what about accessing it from DOS prompt?? SUBST is here to help in this case. With this utility you can easily create virtual drives for any folder. Here is the command as you will type in the dos prompt. C:\> SUBST K: C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\VB98\ZEESOFT\MYPROJECTS Where K: is the drive the folder path. Now use My Computer / Explorer or even DOS prompt to go to K drive just like you switch any other real drive. ::Note:: But what when you switched off or restarted your computer, the drive K: is gone and you need to set it again and again. Well for this case AUTOEXEC.BAT is here to help. Autoexec.bat file is executed in Win 9x even before Windows shell is loaded in memory. Open Autoexec.bat from the root drive, (it might be hidden or might be it isn’t there) in notepad. Scroll to the end and add a line like this SUBST K: <folder>
Replace <folder> with the folder path. ::Note:: To see which virtual drives are assigned are active just type SUBST at dos prompt with no arguments.
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