jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) (08/24/88)
In an effort to ease the pain in changing all programs that access
RAM: to VD0: or RAD: (when it comes out) I was wondering if I could
simply do an:
ASSIGN RAM: VD0:
I could test this myself, but I can't convince myself that even if
it is successful after 10 mins of testing that it will be successful
in all circumstances.
Along the same lines, can I do an
ASSIGN DH0: VD0:
so that I have access to my ram disk inside of DPaintII. (Boy their file
requester sure is brain dead!) BTW, I don't have a hard disk.
(And what if I ASSIGN my DF1: somewhere else? Can I do it?)
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I can guess that any assign involving a mounted physical device can
sense that fact and act accordingly (whatever that means)
{You didn't want to assign DF0: you really meant WorkBench:}
I am fully prepared to get rid of Ram.Handler. Will this make RAM:
always be a logical device and solve my problem?
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|_________________________smaug@eneevax.UUCP (Kurt Lidl) (08/24/88)
In article <2259@ihlpm.ATT.COM> jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes: >[questions about assigning devs to devs removed] >Along the same lines, can I do an > ASSIGN DH0: VD0: >so that I have access to my ram disk inside of DPaintII. (Boy their file >requester sure is brain dead!) BTW, I don't have a hard disk. No! In Dpaint II there is the folder/directory requester and the filename requester. Simply click on the directory requestor (the upper of the two) and type in vd0: When you hit return, it will corectly show the files in that device (vd0:). Then you can go into sub-directories as you normally would. Easy as pi! (~3.14159269) >(And what if I ASSIGN my DF1: somewhere else? Can I do it?) I think that there is a program floating around that will allow you to assign one device to another. eg assigndev df1: df2: to change your (non-existant) second internal 3.5" on a B2000 to your external 3.5" drive. Don't ask me for a copy - I don't have one :-(. >Mike Davis Kurt -- ================================================================== == Kurt J. Lidl (smaug@eneevax.umd.edu) (301)663-2332 == == UUCP: [seismo,allegra]!umcp-cs!eneevax!smaug == ========"It's after 3am, no point in going to sleep now..."=======
sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) (08/26/88)
In Message <2259@ihlpm.ATT.COM>, jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes: >In an effort to ease the pain in changing all programs that access >RAM: to VD0: or RAD: (when it comes out) I was wondering if I could >simply do an: > ASSIGN RAM: VD0: > No this doesn't work. You can not assign any existing device to another. Do an "assign" command and anything after the word "Devices:" (at the end) can not be reassigned. >Along the same lines, can I do an > ASSIGN DH0: VD0: >so that I have access to my ram disk inside of DPaintII. (Boy their file >requester sure is brain dead!) BTW, I don't have a hard disk. > Now this one will work provided "DH0:" doesn't exist. >(And what if I ASSIGN my DF1: somewhere else? Can I do it?) > Sure you can do that - like in the case of "Assign df1: df2:" (provided df1: does not exist and df2: does). Only thing is that df1: is actually assigned to the volume name of the disk in df2: and not the device df2: - again this can be seen via the assign command. If you do want to use an external device as df1: try adding an entry to your mountlist and mounting it! Heres the one I have been using for about 5 months now: /* MOUNTLIST file for allowing an external 3.5" (DF2:) to be mounted as DF1: */ DF1: Device = trackdisk.device Unit = 2 Flags = 1 Surfaces = 2 BlocksPerTrack = 11 Reserved = 2 PreAlloc = 11 Interleave = 0 LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 79 Buffers = 20 BufMemType = 3 # > | Mike Davis -- Dan "Sneakers" Schein {alegra|amiga|rutgers|uunet}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers Sneakers Computing 2455 McKinley Ave West Lawn PA 19609 Call: BERKS AMIGA BBS 24 Hrs - 3/12/2400 Baud Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed are 40 Meg -=- 215/678-7691 those of Sneakers Computing Of course heimat is an Amiga, doesn't everyone run UUCP & UseNet on an Amiga?
page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (08/30/88)
When assigning devices, you really want Phil Lindsay's program AssignDev, available on fish 79 and 111. ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page "What a wonder is USENET; such wholesale production of conjecture from such a trifling investment in fact." -- Carl S. Gutekunst