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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: another 1.4 wish
Message-ID: <7752@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 89 03:12:20 GMT
References: <13227@well.UUCP> <525@tardis.Tymnet.COM> <1364@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> <13304@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <13304@well.UUCP> xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>I _tried_ RELABELing RAM DISK:, and got back and error message.  Never in my
>wildest imaginings did it occur to me that I would have to do it before
>the workbench got loaded.  Now I will.

	I forget about pre-1.3, but under 1.3 it works fine.  The current
Workbench wants you to do relabels through the Workbench Rename after WB is
started (it doesn't notice relabels, of ram: or of any other disk, from CLI).
Works fine.  Relabel before WB comes up, everything works fine.

>Never the less, Andy and other CATS types, this is a bug, not a feature,
>since it is guaranteed to cause grief to old software, and to new users,
>and most of all (I'm shouting here, listen up ;-) IT WASN'T NECESSARY!

	Everyone has known from Day 1 (and many before) that spaces were
allowed in file names and device names.  There is a limit on how much we can
do to make already broken programs work.  Far more important is to avoid
breaking correct programs.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"