How to remove drive letter

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In microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin alantang(Anti-Spam)
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Hello:

Is it possible to remove the drive letter from command line?
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What's the context?
A "mapped" drive? Local drive? SUBSTituted drive? ...
From a CMD Prompt?
 
Ohh... Sorry for missing the importation information. The Drive is a
logical drive!
Does "diskpark" can do that? How about "mountvol"?

Thanks!
 
If you mean the prompt shown in the cmd window, it's a variable called
"PROMPT". By default it's set to $p$g which results in showing the full
path to the current location with the greater than symbol. But I don't see
anyway to get rid of the drive letter.

If you're wanting to find out the drive letter that is passed to a batch
file at the command line then that's a different story. And although I'm
sure it can be done, I don't have time right now to get to it. If I find
time later, I'll see what I can come up with.
 
In microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin alantang(Anti-Spam)
wrote:
Ohh... Sorry for missing the importation information. The Drive
is a logical drive!
Does "diskpark" can do that? How about "mountvol"?
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All "drive letters" refer to "logical" volumes.

What is it you want to do?
 
Don I said:
If you mean the prompt shown in the cmd window, it's a variable called
"PROMPT". By default it's set to $p$g which results in showing the full
path to the current location with the greater than symbol. But I don't see
anyway to get rid of the drive letter.

If you're wanting to find out the drive letter that is passed to a batch
file at the command line then that's a different story. And although I'm
sure it can be done, I don't have time right now to get to it. If I find
time later, I'll see what I can come up with.
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No need:
X:\bats\batfile.bat Z:\data\info\stuff.txt
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in batfile.bat:

echo/drive where batch file is located: "%~d0"
echo/drive where data file is located: "%~d1"

/Al
 
I think what the user is asking is:
"assume I have Z: mounted to something, either a UNC share, WebDAV share, or
local partition", how do I remove Z: from the mapping [so that I can use it
for something else]"

To remove a UNC or WebDAV share, use:
NET USE Z: /d
To remove a Z: mapping to a local partition:
- On W2K, use:
mountvol Z: /d
- On WXP/WS03, use DISKPART:
diskpart
list volume
select volume # (find the volume # corresponding to the drive letter in
interest)
remove

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Don I said:
If you mean the prompt shown in the cmd window, it's a variable called
"PROMPT". By default it's set to $p$g which results in showing the full
path to the current location with the greater than symbol. But I don't see
anyway to get rid of the drive letter.

If you're wanting to find out the drive letter that is passed to a batch
file at the command line then that's a different story. And although I'm
sure it can be done, I don't have time right now to get to it. If I find
time later, I'll see what I can come up with.
Click to expand...

No need:
X:\bats\batfile.bat Z:\data\info\stuff.txt
Click to expand...

in batfile.bat:

echo/drive where batch file is located: "%~d0"
echo/drive where data file is located: "%~d1"

/Al
 
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