Supervising the Network

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Customizing the User Environment

Using DRIVE

Unless this command is in your login script, the default drive is set to the

ﬁrst network drive, which is often assigned to your home directory when

you log in.

If you don’t want the default drive to be the ﬁrst network drive, map a drive

in the login script to the directory you want to be the default; then use the

DRIVE command to change the default drive.

Instead of specifying a drive letter, such as F: or G:, you can use an asterisk

followed by a number n to represent the nth network drive (for example, *3).

This allows drive letters to reorder themselves automatically if previous

drive mappings are deleted or added.

Example

Suppose you expect to work on only one project for several days and the

ﬁles for that project are located on drive S:. You can use the DRIVE

command to set your default drive to S: so you won’t have to change your

default drive manually every time you log in.

First, make sure you have mapped drive S: to the correct directory in your

DRIVE S:

EXIT

Use EXIT to terminate execution of the login script and execute an external

program.

Command Format

EXIT [“filename [parameters]”]

Using EXIT

The length of information between quotation marks cannot exceed your

keyboard buffer length minus 1 (commonly 15 - 1 = 14 characters).

You can use the EXIT command in a login script to stop the login script and

execute a program, such as a word-processing or menu program.