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From: Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: Drives directory
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:05:55 +0200
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Bart Oldeman wrote:

> CONFIG.SYS cannot see drive Z: yet (a DOS limitation: DOS just
> assigns C:, D:, etc) so it temporarily uses drive D: instead to
> access the relevant files (ems.sys, lredir.exe, etc). Then the
> lredir command is used in config.sys and autoexec.bat to set
> the drives to what you see after starting dosemu. D: is set to
> $HOME because it was there in 1.2.x too.

Thanks.. this explains a lot. BTW my DOS knowledge must be getting
rusty. I always thought the LASTDRIVE=Z statement in CONFIG.SYS
was supposed to take care of that. But, yes, I tried it now and it
doesn't. Must read up on it..

Regards, Jan