[Gllug] Treats for Windows refugees

[Nix]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Christian Smith moaned:
[mount]
> Bah! Dos 3.3 (I think, perhaps even 2) could do that! The command was
> join, but it could only mount drives onto a root subdirectory. Something
> like:
> join b: c:\bdrive
> 
> Unfortunately, they did away with it in Win9x.

Given the horrific nature of the implementation of that command, I'm
not even slightly surprised. It was a crock from top to bottom.

(I still shudder on remembering the appropriate pieces of _Undocumented
DOS_. Good god but that system was inelegant.)

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