spencer@usc-oberon.UUCP (Randy) (09/22/86)
I lost the message, but the question was:
When this person used the mount command to get to his home brew 5 1/4" disk
he got the message "Device Already Mounted"
Well, this is an easy one.
When you change the devs:mountlist file so that the Drive Name is changed from
"DF1:" to "DF2:", you also must change the Drive Number line from "1" to "2",
or from "2" to "3", whatever it was. I had the same problem way back when.
That is the problem with working with an operating system that is developing
right before your eyes.
Now, while I have your attention, I thought I would put out a suggestion that
has been wondering around in my mind for a while. Seems that, a while back,
lots of people where having problems with writting programs on 512K machines
and then discovering after the program was distributed that it wouldn't work
on the machines that have fast memory. So it became standard to check that.
Well, in most of the software that I run through my machine I notice another
problem that programmers might be missing. I find that programs will not take
into account that a user might have set his machine to 60 columns. I remember
finding problems with that on one of the Emacs's and one of the Terminal pro-
grams. I am not a real programmer, but I am a hack, and I have noticed many
times that changing to an 80 column window would have been nice, unless you
can't, but I am no programmer.
I was also going to say, why is it that micro emacs can't support lines over
80 columns long, but just 6 lines back I noticed that 3.7 did something I
hadn't expected. When it goes over 80 columns it sidways scrolls just that
one line so that you can see the rest of it. Personally I prefer the way that
mainframe Emacs's do it, putting the rest of the line on the next line and put-
ting a "\" at the end of the first screen line, but this is a start.
Lastly I just got back from the Commodore Show in LA and had a really good
time, I just kept following RJ around listening to the stories about the
beginnings of the Amiga. I was sort of disappointed that I already knew all
the juicyest gossip about new Amiga stuff from Usenet. The only new thing
I saw was the TIC clock chip from Byte -by- Byte. It plugs into the Joystick
port and is only about an inch cube.
As I listened to RJ Micael (sp?) talk about the Sidecar I thought it was
rather ironic that he was saying they designed the Sidecar to be totally
bullet-proof, while downstairs was another of the many Sidecars I had
seen at demonstrations all of which have been on the Fritz. I will be
really excited the day that I finally see a working version, but that
should be soon what with the rumor at the show being that the FCC finally
approved the Sidecar. That should mean that the many unapproved Sidecars
that have been built should end up in our local computer showrooms as demos.
Well, nice talking to you all again.
Glad you finally got a real monitor Matt.
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