TITLE:              ASSIGN Command Documentation Not Clear
DOCUMENT ID:        TID015196
DOCUMENT REVISION:  1
DATE:               03MAR94
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
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NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NOVELL DOS V7.0

ABSTRACT:
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SYMPTOMS:

When typing multiple ASSIGN commands, the previous assignments are
erased.

CAUSES:

The ASSIGN command has been changed from the way it worked with DR
DOS to work like the old MS-DOS ASSIGN command. (MS-DOS no longer
ships the ASSIGN command with 6.x.)

If you enter ASSIGN A=C then enter ASSIGN B=D later, the "A"
assignment will be overwritten.  The documentation (DOSBOOK or the
command line help), however, does not clearly explain how this
command works.  In fact, the command line help leads you to believe
that it takes an ASSIGN command by itself to clear previous
assignments.

MS-DOS documentation explicitly tells you that future uses of ASSIGN
will clear all previous assignments; however, the Novell
documentation does not.  This is mostly confusing for DR DOS users
that are used to being able to type in multiple ASSIGN commands
without losing the former ones.

SOLUTION:

If you need to assign multiple drives, then place them all in one
ASSIGN command as shown in the following example:

     ASSIGN A=C B=D x=y

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