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From: John Boyne <john AT nuldev DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Join (was: Many small files versus big clusters)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 21:07:36 GMT
Organization: The Null Device
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References: <DGC6wM DOT 8zn AT jade DOT mv DOT net>
Reply-To: john AT nuldev DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
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In article <DGC6wM DOT 8zn AT jade DOT mv DOT net>
           til AT zentrum DOT phys DOT chemie DOT tu-muenchen DOT de "Tilmann Haeberle" writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> >
> >If the problem is finding your way with several drives, then you can use=20
> >the DOS Join command to make any drive look like a directory on your C:=20
> >drive.  Any subdirectory of that directory is really on another drive,=20
> >but you don't have to know that.
> >
> >
> 
> But join works only with MS-DOS version 5.0 and below.

Join for DOS 6.22 is available in a supplement from microsoft, or do an
archie search for DOS622.EXE. Check out gowinnt.microsoft.com, it's in
one of the directories there.

I _think_ it's also available from ftp.funet.fi, or src.doc.ic.ac.uk
Those two may be wrong.

John

-- 
John Boyne

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