FVEST@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU (Floyd Vest) (06/27/89)
Sorry to bother everyone, but my address for Dave Haynie bounced.
When adding yet another assign to my startup-sequence yesterday
I remembered seeing your BindNames come across the net a few
months back. I grabbed it an installed it and voila! a great
program. I did have a couple of problems with it that I thought
you might be interested in...
1) BindNames does not support names containing blanks, either
with or without quotes. Solution--don't do that.
2) This one is fairly serious. My boot disk is a stripped-down
workbench disk and has no FONTS directory. When I tried to
run bindnames the computer hung up when it hit the entry for
FONTS--I had to reboot to start over. I found if I made a
FONTS directory (just a directory no entries) on my boot disk
BindNames worked ok.
I thought you might like to know about the problem--especially
the second one which seemed pretty serious.
BTW--BindNames really is nice. Thanks.
Floyd Vest
Auburn University
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fvest@ducvax.auburn.edudaveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) (06/29/89)
in article <8906270017.AA10040@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, FVEST@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU (Floyd Vest) says: > Sorry to bother everyone, but my address for Dave Haynie bounced. Seems to be a popular hobby these days, bouncing mail to cbmvax... > 1) BindNames does not support names containing blanks, either > with or without quotes. Solution--don't do that. That's an obvious one, based on a stupid little parser that didn't think about quotes. Hopefully I'll add in quoted names, should I ever get around to fixing up the system. > 2) This one is fairly serious. My boot disk is a stripped-down > workbench disk and has no FONTS directory. When I tried to > run bindnames the computer hung up when it hit the entry for > FONTS--I had to reboot to start over. I found if I made a > FONTS directory (just a directory no entries) on my boot disk > BindNames worked ok. Yup, I found out about that one shortly after it's release. For some reason, standard assignments like FONTS: or LIBS: or whatever are always built on system startup. However, instead of an empty string being assigned when the directory isn't found, you apparently get a NULL pointer (it's actually a BSTR style thing; a BPTR to a counted string). I never considered that possibility; when you use assign to remove a name, the name goes completely away. Again, if I get an update on it, that'll definitely be in. > BTW--BindNames really is nice. Thanks. Glad you like it. Amazing what an evening's hacking can cook up. Maybe I'll spend two evening the next time I get a similar idea and work out a few more bugs l^) > Floyd Vest -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy Be careful what you wish for -- you just might get it