resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) (05/21/91)
Some real live programmer questions here, some general system questions. A program I am currently using (specifically Eudora) has all of its files stored in a folder (not suprisingly called "Eudora Folder") which normally resides in the System Folder. You can put this folder somewhere else on the disk or on another volume so long as you start the program by double clicking a file in that folder. AHA! I said, I will just select one of those documents and go into "Set Startup" to get it going (I'm using System 6.0.7 until new Ethernet card drivers get here). Now the bad news -- I really wanted to put this on my AppleShare partition. Bzzzzzz - next contestant! Trying to go into Set Startup gives me the infinitely wise message "That's not a startup volume". *Sigh*. But I think, well, I can just wait until I get 7.0 installed, with all of those nifty aliases. Now for the questions: 1. Will this work under 7.0? Will I be able to launch my program by opening a file that is on an AppleShare volume by actually opening its alias? Before answering this definitively, note: 2. Bad news number 2: This AppleShare volume happens to be a CAP Apple-Unix File Share volume. The nifty thing here is that aufs does not keep static directory ID's. That means that if files are opened by directory ID, I am screwed anyway, since they all get reset every time I re-mount the disk. Does System 7 help me here? Will these new file ID's work with my aufs volume? (I don't have Inside Mac VI yet, though it is on the way from APDA, and I don't know enough about the aufs code.) 3. Can anyone think of other ways to accomplish the same thing another way, either under System 6 or System 7? Any help from the world greatly appreciated. pr -- Pete Resnick (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?) Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC Internet/ARPAnet/EDUnet : resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu BITNET (if no other way) : FREE0285@UIUCVMD
dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) (05/21/91)
Pete Resnick writes: >3. Can anyone think of other ways to accomplish the same thing another >way, either under System 6 or System 7? You can change STR# resource id 6200, string 14 to be the complete pathname of the folder you want Eudora to use. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner