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Comment by hyperman1

There used to be a weird trick here: Who says drive letters have to be letters? If you had more than 26 drives, msdos just took whatever was in the ascii table after Z: . This was easy to cause with network drives. Programs mostly just went with it unquestioningly. I don 't remember what happens if your drive letter itself is a backslash.

A few years ago it was still possible to do stuff like

  subst ?: C:\somepath
Then you had a drive ?: which was accepted by half of your programs but not the others.

I don't have a win10 laying around so I can't test if this is still true today.

parent hyperman1 4 years ago

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