Commodore PC Ms-Dos 3.2 User's Manual page 136

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join Join
Purpose: w
Joins a disk drive to a specific path.
Syntax: ^^J
join [drive: drive-path]
or {J
join drive: IA
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With the join command you don't need to name physical drives
with separate drive letters. Instead, you can refer to all the direc
tories on a specific drive with one path. If the path already existed \J
before you gave the join command, you cannot use it while the
"join" is in effect. Also, you cannot join a drive if it is being used
by another process. / \
If the path does not exist, ms-dos tries to make a directory with
that path. After you give the join command, the first drive name
becomes invalid, and if you try to use it ms-dos displays the < j
"Invalid drive" error message. ^^^
Examples:
Joining a drive You can join a drive only with a root level directory. For example, ^^
this command will work:
join d: c:\sales \^J
But the following one will not:
join d: c:\sales\regional
To reverse join ("unjoin"), use the following format: I )
join drive: /d
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Here drive: represents the source drive, and the /d switch turns
off the join command.
If you just type the join command by itself, ms-dos displays the {^J
current drives that are joined.
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