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MS DOS Commands Inquiry

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masterchicker

Programmer
Mar 10, 2004
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US
Hi,

How do you create subdirectories in Autoexec of win98se?
I installed a ramdrive on my Win98se system. In a nutshell, upon startup autoexec does this:

md I:\TEMP
set Temp = I:\Temp
set Tmp = I:\Temp

(I:\ is the drive letter of my Ramdrive)

I want to make subdirectories within the temp folder upon startup. Something like:

I:\Temp\<subdirectory>

How can I achieve this?

When I do this:

md I:\TEMP\<subdirectory>

I receive a "Too many parameters" error message.
 
after creating the parent directory type:
Code:
cd\TEMP
md\childdir1

i hope this helps. peace! [peace]

kilroy [trooper]
philippines

"Illegitimis non carborundum!"
 
How about doing a fast test:

wherever you happen to be try creating again

md i:\test
md i:\test\test

should end up with a test directory and a test subdirectory under it. This to verify that the correct commands will create both. And to start the diagnosis that the set commands may be getting in the way.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
 
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