info-mac@uw-beaver.UUCP (10/07/84)
From: Werner Uhrig <CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA> In one application (MS-BASIC), at least, it is necessary to use the full disk name when OPENing files not on the same disk as the MS-BASIC (thank you, Microsoft, for not going through "the trouble" to customize to the Macintosh. Hope, declining sales will reward you properly). Is there any way to get around spelling out the full name of the disk, by using a physical device name instead? Is there any way to ask the system to show you the name of the current disk without going back to the DeskTop? For example: currently I have to say: OPEN 025 Wk MS-Basic Programs-1:useful program name rather than OPEN DSK1:useful program name File-name completion ?? Noooo, that's for wimps, only. RIGHT !!! )=8 -------