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Re: A Portable Modeling CD for Holiday Travels?
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:11:07 GMT
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Shaun,
Not sure if this will help you or not, but there is an old dos command
named SUBST, which will substitute a drive letter and path for another.
For instance you could type Subst L: D:\ and that will create an L drive
on your system that refers to the actual drive and path D:\.
Then Subst L: /D will remove it.
So, what that possibly means is that you could set up your CD to work
off of a hard coded letter, ( like L for LDraw ?) and as long as the
machines that you want to use it on do not have that drive allocated
already, you can SUBST and make the drive available, making it point to
whatever letter is the actual CD drive.
Of course if your CD drives are M and N, then you may want to make your
mapped letter higher, as long as the target machines aren't on a
network, and mapping the drives already.
No guarantees, as this just popped into my head. Good luck.
-Andy Lynch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shaun Sullivan" <shaun_sullivan@irco.com>
> (1) drive letters on various computers; on my computer, the CD drives • are m:
> and n:. I don't know what they are on family members' computers. I • need to
> ensure that the file and directory references relate to the local • hierarchy,
> and not the actual drive letter. That is, I want MLCad to look for • the parts
> in \.\LDRAW (the single dot is local directory, isn't it?), and not • m:\LDRAW,
> which would produce an error if the CD drive is not m:
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 | | Re: A Portable Modeling CD for Holiday Travels?
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| Not too much to add except this... drive letters can be used not only for things like CDs but also for subdirectories of existing hard drives. (1) So you could set up a directory like C:\mumble\LDrawCDimage\ then do a NET USE like net use l: (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | A Portable Modeling CD for Holiday Travels?
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| All right, I may be in way over my head here, but here goes anyway: Firstly, let me give you an idea of what we're up against. I'm certainly computer literate, maybe even computer handy. I am not, however, a computer guru. Speak slow, give (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad)
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