Re: SUCCESS AT LAST

"mec-devil" <delusions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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> Mary typed:

> > Since we are into the nitty gritty here, so in the above
> > example, the first letter could be C or D or J if you
> > wanted,
>
> Yes :)

OK.

> > so if you typed "mount D c:\" you are mounting the
> > C drive in dosbox
>
> Yes :)

OK

> What you're doing, is *matching* a drive letter (D) to a
> path (C:\) - they both end up having the same contents.
>
> The path can be just a simple (C:\) or a deeper directory
> (C:\Music\Sinatra) For example, if you typed:
>
> mount M c:\
> mount A c:\
> mount R c:\
> mount Y c:\
>
> Then you'd have *four* drive letters in DOSbox (M:, A:, R:,
> Y:) and they'd *all* point to the same path (C:\)

Why would you put four drive letters in when you are only going to use
one drive (hard drive I presume you mean). Don't forget in this example
you are only talking about mounting the hard drive onto the Dosbox
drive. There is the other mount you have to also do, and that is
mounting the cdrom drive. In the case of the cdrom drive, the concept is
a little more straight forward, you only have to mount the drive to tell
dosbox where the game CD is.

> mount J c:\music\sinatra
>
> Now you'd have a *fifth* drive (J:), but this one points
> *directly* to the path we want (c:\music\sinatra)

Yes, but you wouldn't install all those drives.

> So, if you wanted to access "c:\music\sinatra", you could
> type:
>
> M: [or any drive letter above- M:, A:, R:, Y:]
> cd music
> cd sinatra
>
> Or to be quicker you could type:
>
> J:
>
> Either way, you end up at the same path (c:\music\sinatra)
>
> (Not to mention, you'd end up mounting "M:A:R:Y:J:" ;D -
> heh heh)

Ohhhh! Watch it buster :)

> > The two letters in "mount C: and C:\ " also
> > could be more simply explained as the first C is to
> > identify the drive you are going to play the game on
> > (can be any letter) and the second C:\ is the directory
> > on the drive where the game will be accessed and played
> > from. The first C is the drive, the second C is the
> > directory. Right?
>
> Well, pretty much - we might be using different terminology
> (I'm calling the second C a "path"), but I think you've got
> a basic enough understanding, that really it is not worth
> further explanation since you're already playing Gobliins. ;)

True, but I wanted to understand what you were trying to say.

> > I would think its easier just to choose C C:\ .
>
> It is - you should *always* do it that way, less confusion.
> (Match up each drive to the same letter, c = c:\, f = f:\)

I don't know why any other examples are used other than c=c and f=f.
That is one of the things which confused me the most. The other thing
that confused me was C: C:\ and what that meant. To confirm, one last
try - it means the first C represents dosbox? and the second C:\ is your
hard drive and by typing "mount c: c:\ you are transferring the contents
of your hard drive to dosbox which is c: ?

> But you see, there is a basic *concept* behind the mount
> command, that we're trying to describe, even though you do
> not need to use it. :) ;D (So if you're still not 115% sure,
> it does not really matter) The best way to understand the
> concept and usage of anything, is just to experiment.

I don't need to experiment. I pretty well understand everything, except
for a couple of minor points.

> >> Say you want access to the directory:
> >>
> >> C:\Documents\Music\Soundgarden\
> >>
> >> Except who'd want to type out that long path every time?
> >> So instead, you can just assign it any drive letter:
> >>
> >> mount S: C:\Documents\Music\Soundgarden\
> >
> > If you didn't do it the way right above, you would have
> > to do S: (as your example) in one line and the rest in the
> > next line. So the above combines two lines into one. I
> > think that is right?
>
> Not really "combines", but it just makes it quicker to get
> to where you're going. ;)

Its still combining two lines into one was what I meant :)

MaryJ

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