Windows equivalent of DOS ASSIGN command?

Factual Questions
1

I’m running Windows ME and trying to install an old DOS based application which I received as one giant ZIP file. The install.exe only works from A: or B:, and expects to find the supporting files there as well (“Now install Disk #1, etc. …”).

Rather than copying all individual files to floppies, in the old days, I would’ve entered ASSIGN C: = A: (or was it ASSIGN A:=C:?).

Windows ME apparently doesn’t come with the ASSIGN command in the DOS kernel. What can I do in windows to achieve the same result?

2

Try the subst command. I don’t know about ME, but I have it on NT.

Something like:

subst a: c:\mydirectory

3

Thanks – worked like a charm. Actually better than old ASSIGN since I could reassign B: to a directory on C:

This command doesn’t even show up in HELP –