marvel@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Howard P. Marvel) (12/20/88)
The setup: Two-drive SE, 1mb, no hard disk, system 6.0.2, HC 1.2.1. The problem: System, finder, home on disk 1, some stacks on disk 2. stack on disk 2 says go to stack "Disk 3:newStack" The first time through, the user gets the Where is Disk 3:newStack dialog box. Next time, Disk 2 is ejected and user is asked to insert disk 3. Aggravating disk shuffling ensues. The problem is to present the Please insert the disk: Disk 3 dialog the FIRST time through. The HyperCard Script Language guide seems to suggest that the global stacks is used to handle this. Not true. If Disk 3: is part of stacks on startup, the Where is ... dialog still happens the first time through. It looks like an undocumented variable is used for pathnames. The question is, how to I register the desired disk with the undocumented variable on startup?