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Article #13379Re: Determining disk devices
From: Darren New
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 16:55
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 16:55
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In article <2924@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore) writes: >In article <570@shodha.dec.com>, ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder) writes... >>I have always thought that file requesters shouldn't be putting up >>*drive* buttons, they should be putting up *volume* buttons. This >>would make network filesystems more transparent (to applications) too. > >How would you then be able to access a volume not currently mounted? >Having the drives allows you to put a disk in, then call the drive to >access the volume. You do it the same way that Workbench does it. When a disk is inserted, add that volume name to the list of available volumes. Actually, I think one of the early versions of DPaint or DVideo did something very similar to this, and I really liked it. On a side note, I really hate the TurboSilver file requestor. It puts up the names unsorted, then leaves them unsorted until you scroll, which rearranges all the names into order. If you're going to sort names, sort during insertion, not after the scan is complete! That's like rearranging all the windows every time you resize any one. -- Darren
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!ames!haven!udel!new From: new@udel.edu (Darren New) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Determining disk devices Message-ID: <7669@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 8 Jan 90 16:55:49 GMT References: <2924@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> Sender: usenet@udel.EDU Reply-To: new@udel.edu (Darren New) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 20