Microsoft DOS assign command
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Introduced with MS-DOS 2.0 and has been available up to 6.0 where it was removed because of concern with data issues. Was latter made available on the MS-DOS 6.0, 6.2 and 6.22 supplemental disks. The assign command redirects disk operation on one drive to a different drive.
Any users using Windows 95 or above should not use this command and consider using the SUBST command as a substitute.
The assign command is an external command file named assign.com and is available in the below Microsoft operating systems.
ASSIGN Source = Target /status
| ASSIGN | Assign with no switches cancels redirected drive assignments and sets them back to their original drives. |
| Source | Letters of source drives |
| Target | Letters of target drives |
| /status | Lists current drive assignments |
ASSIGN A: = B:
ASSIGN A = B = C - Assigns A as B and B as C.
The assign command does not work with format, diskcopy, diskcomp, backup, label, restore, print or subst.
Warning: Do not use a colon after a drive letter in versions prior to 5.0.