| Title: | Microsoft Windows |
| Moderator: | EEMELI::BACKSTROM |
| Created: | Thu Apr 24 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu May 29 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4731 |
| Total number of notes: | 24015 |
Hi, Can anyone tell me how to control which device drive the ramdisk program will assign? At the moment it is simply using the next free drive letter, but since I want to setup a boot floppy for general use, I cannot hardcode a drive letter, and variables set in the batch file that ramdrive uses are not returned at completion. Any help would be appreciated. thanks, Nick
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| 4730.1 | this dos; this is your process in dos | NETCAD::ROLKE | The FDDI Genome Project | Tue May 27 1997 13:40 | 10 |
I think you are stuck with: "Ramdrive uses the next available driver letter." I use SUBST to map a drive to some common letter, say V:, so that I never know what disk I'm really on but my process uses V: and it is happy. FWIW, Chuck | |||||
| 4730.2 | RUSURE::EDP | Always mount a scratch monkey. | Wed May 28 1997 09:51 | 12 | |
I have a batch file that figures out where the RAM drive landed and
assigns TMP and TEMP to point there. The DOS LABEL command is useful
for this. Let me know if you'd like a copy. As .1 notes, once you've
found the drive, you can use SUBST to give it a fixed letter instead of
assigning TMP and TEMP.
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