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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: another 1.4 wish
Message-ID: <7722@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 89 18:04:35 GMT
References: <13227@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <13227@well.UUCP> xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>This one just bit me, and the folks at C-A should have known better!
>
>Please change the name of "ram disk:" to either ram_disk: or just ram:;
>changing the name to include an embedded space for 1.3 broke
>working software!  For example, the Lattice C++ hello.sh demonstration

You can relabel the ram disk to be anything you like; however
you have now been warned that you have broken software...a space
has always been legal in disk names.  And, you've been warned
by a piece of software that you can always refer to by the name
RAM:  or relabel to something else,

This happened as a side effect of fixing the ram-handler for 1.3...
pre-1.2 RAM: didn't have a proper volume node, so lots of programs
had to a special case the ram-handler.

>It is sure nice to have icons with multi-word labels, but what I as a CLI
>user think of a file system design that allows embedded spaces in names
>cannot be expressed without profanity, and lots of it.

Either refer to it as RAM: or relabel it in your startup sequence.
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