Re: TeX/Wimp/Morley SCSIFS/keyboardhandler

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Author: /G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/...
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:22

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altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes) writes:

>In article <1992Dec16.101159.26305@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:

>>4. Has anyone noticed this "bug" in the Morley SCSIFS :
[...]
>>   Morley claims that the drive must be mounted each time the user clicks
>>   on the iconbar.  But ADFS doesn't mount the disc...
>>   Can anyone shed some light on this.  Is the behaviour of the Morley card
>>   normal ?
>It's the way morley do it - obviously they execute a dir or similar command
>to mount the disk, whereas the best way of causing filecore to mount the
>disk but not set the CSD is to do something like read the attributes of
>the $ directory object (what our filers do). I didn't know the morley
>software did it, I'll shout at Gary today, I have to call him anyway....

It's possible I'm being very thick here, but what's the problem with just
issuing a Message_FilerOpenDir at the root of the relevant disc and letting
FileCore sort the mess out?

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Re: TeX/Wimp/Morley SCSIFS/keyboardhandler

#510

Author: Hugo Fiennes
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:01

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In article <ARM200-921222012210-5D147CDB*@MHS> /G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk writes:

>altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Dec16.101159.26305@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
>tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:
>
>>>4. Has anyone noticed this "bug" in the Morley SCSIFS :
>[...]
>>>   Morley claims that the drive must be mounted each time the user clicks
>>>   on the iconbar.  But ADFS doesn't mount the disc...
>>>   Can anyone shed some light on this.  Is the behaviour of the Morley card
>>>   normal ?
>>It's the way morley do it - obviously they execute a dir or similar command
>>to mount the disk, whereas the best way of causing filecore to mount the
>>disk but not set the CSD is to do something like read the attributes of
>>the $ directory object (what our filers do). I didn't know the morley
>>software did it, I'll shout at Gary today, I have to call him anyway....
>
>It's possible I'm being very thick here, but what's the problem with just
>issuing a Message_FilerOpenDir at the root of the relevant disc and letting
>FileCore sort the mess out?
Ah, but how do you get the nice disk name in the title of the filer window?
You have to read it, then issue a opendir scsi::diskname.$ ... having
windows topped with scsi::4.$ is a bit nasty, innit?

Hugo


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