Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:02:30 -0800 from Rick Altman
<rick.a@NOSPAMaltman.com>:
> I implement this cutting-edge strategy with a
> tool that has been off the radar for years.
>
> I use the SUBST.EXE command.
>
>
> I don't think you can even find that old command on the XP CD,

It's fully a part of the XP command line, and is documented in Help
and Support.

It works rather better in XP than in Win98. IIRC, in Win98 you had to
have SUBST in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file; otherwise DOS would recognize
the SUBST drives but Windows GUI programs would not. In XP, in you
execute SUBST in a command window it's recognized by all Windows
programs and subsequent command windows.

You imply that you're using some old version of SUBST. Why ask for
trouble? Since a working version is part of XP, why not use it?

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/