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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BindNames (attn: Dave Haynie)
Message-ID: <7160@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 89 18:54:21 GMT
References: <8906270017.AA10040@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <8906270017.AA10040@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, FVEST@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU (Floyd Vest) says:

> Sorry to bother everyone, but my address for Dave Haynie bounced.

Seems to be a popular hobby these days, bouncing mail to cbmvax...

> 1) BindNames does not support names containing blanks, either
> with or without quotes.  Solution--don't do that.

That's an obvious one, based on a stupid little parser that didn't think
about quotes.  Hopefully I'll add in quoted names, should I ever get 
around to fixing up the system.

> 2) This one is fairly serious.  My boot disk is a stripped-down
> workbench disk and has no FONTS directory.  When I tried to
> run bindnames the computer hung up when it hit the entry for
> FONTS--I had to reboot to start over.  I found if I made a
> FONTS directory (just a directory no entries) on my boot disk
> BindNames worked ok.   

Yup, I found out about that one shortly after it's release.  For some
reason, standard assignments like FONTS: or LIBS: or whatever are always
built on system startup.  However, instead of an empty string being
assigned when the directory isn't found, you apparently get a NULL pointer
(it's actually a BSTR style thing; a BPTR to a counted string).  I never
considered that possibility; when you use assign to remove a name, the name
goes completely away.  Again, if I get an update on it, that'll definitely
be in.

> BTW--BindNames really is nice.  Thanks.

Glad you like it.  Amazing what an evening's hacking can cook up.  Maybe
I'll spend two evening the next time I get a similar idea and work out a
few more bugs  l^)

> Floyd Vest
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