Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!rose!ehoogerbeets
From: ehoogerbeets@rose.waterloo.edu (Edwin Hoogerbeets)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re-assigning DF0: to DF1:
Keywords: annnh, wrong, but thanks for playing
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Date: 8 Jul 89 02:28:28 GMT
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In article <14952@watdragon.waterloo.edu> sjorr@rose.waterloo.edu (Stephen Orr) writes:
% Two solutions are possible, the first and easiest is to assign DF1: to
% DF0:
% 	assign DF1: DF0:
% this will trick quite a few programs, 

Well, what happens if you change the disk in df0: to a different
AmigaDOS disk? A requester will come up asking to insert volume "My Old
Volume:".  Or if the disk in df0: is actually not in Amiga SFS or FFS
format? The assign simply will not work.

What actually is needed is AssignDev by Phillip Lindsay and Olaf
Seibert. It can be found on Fish 111 or the older version on Fish 79,
or by ftp from uxe.cso.uiuc.edu.  AssignDev clones the devicelist
entry, making "df1:" mean the same as "df0:" instead of making "df1:"
mean "My Volume:".

Edwin