[Gllug] Treats for Windows refugees

[Christian Smith]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Bruce Richardson wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:51AM +0100, Rev wrote:
>>
>> On 5/9/2005, "Tom Schutzer-Weissmann" <trmsw at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >- symlinks
>> >- grep
>> >- the loopback device
>> >- modprobe
>>
>> mount!  It's really one of the big things that *nix does better.  Run
>> out of space in /home/jsmith/foo?  Slot in a new hard drive, copy the
>> data across then mount it over the top.  Hey presto, more space for
>> /home/jsmith/foo without having to update anything pointing to it.
>
>Windows has had the ability to mount drives against paths rather than
>drive letters since Win2k.  What you can't do is remap any of
>the core directories (the ones for which it would be most useful, like
>Documents and Settings), partly because you can never turn off enough of
>windows so that they wouldn't be in use.


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.


Christian

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