Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalcs!lane
From: lane@dalcs.UUCP (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Needed: a dummy device driver
Keywords: MSDOS device driver
Message-ID: <2950@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 88 05:41:52 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Hi.  I've been wishing for some time that I had a "dummy" device driver
which I could throw in my CONFIG.SYS to use up a disk-drive letter.  Why?
Well, I like to create a logical drive D: and SUBST it to one of my sub-
directories.  Trouble arises if I wand to use a RAM disk or some such be-
cause the driver for that wants to grab the D: identifier.  At the moment,
I'm using DRIVER.SYS to create a dummy block device D: which I later over-
ride with my SUBST command.  It works, but it seems a waste of memory.
Anybody got such a thing or heard of one or is inspired to create one?
Any tips/contributions much appreciated.

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