Re: [Freedos-user] Drive Mapping SWSUBST

[Eric Auer]

Hi Dosgeek,

> I am working on a dedicated server. So far I have managed to successfully
> install WordPerfect Office LAN, my LAN PowerMenu and LAN version of Lotus
> 1-2-3 version 2.3. All programs are accessible to at least 2 client
> machines.

> SWSUBST F: C: is loaded during the autoexec & before STARTNET (for
> maintenance and installation of programs). I find myself occasionally
> accessing c: and causing a share lock, crash or something similar.

Note that SWSUBST has somewhat "strange" command line options, so
simply "SWSUBST F: C:" might do something else than what you want.

It is no exact clone of MS SUBST. Please read the manual carefully.

Also, if you have error messages about share, you may have to
load the SHARE driver TSR before using SWSUBST.

Cheers, Eric



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Re: [Freedos-user] Drive Mapping SWSUBST

[Rugxulo]

i,

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 11:58 AM, dosgeek57  wrote:
>
> I am working on a dedicated server. So far I have managed to successfully
> install WordPerfect Office LAN, my LAN PowerMenu and LAN version of Lotus
> 1-2-3 version 2.3. All programs are accessible to at least 2 client
> machines.
> SWSUBST F: C: is loaded during the autoexec & before STARTNET (for
> maintenance and installation of programs). I find myself occasionally
> accessing c: and causing a share lock, crash or something similar.

It's been a few years since I have actively used SUBST. The very few
times in recent memory that I tried under FreeDOS, it sadly just
didn't work, too buggy. I don't know why. (Kernel regression? PEBKAC?)

Unfortunately, there is no current maintainer, and it's dated back to
2002. So I don't know who to point you to for better help.

Try re-reading this, just to make sure you know the usage details:

http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/subst.htm

> My question is this: Is there any way (via ENV variable or other means) to
> null the C: drive and have everything point to my F: drive?

Although I haven't used it, SRDISK ("UTIL") contains a SRDUMMY.SYS
device driver for its own purposes, meant to use up drive letters to
get the desired letter as next freely available. So you could maybe
try that:

http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=srdisk
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ramdisk/srdisk/srdsk209c.zip

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[Freedos-user] Drive Mapping SWSUBST

[dosgeek57]

I am working on a dedicated server. So far I have managed to successfully
install WordPerfect Office LAN, my LAN PowerMenu and LAN version of Lotus
1-2-3 version 2.3. All programs are accessible to at least 2 client
machines.
SWSUBST F: C: is loaded during the autoexec & before STARTNET (for
maintenance and installation of programs). I find myself occasionally
accessing c: and causing a share lock, crash or something similar.

My question is this: Is there any way (via ENV variable or other means) to
null the C: drive and have everything point to my F: drive? 



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