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From: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mount Bug Warning (Was: Re: VD0 help)
Message-ID: <838@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 89 09:43:26 GMT
References: <935@wsu-cs.uucp> <11102@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <26766@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <20932@sequent.UUCP> <2493@abaa.UUCP>
Reply-To: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
Organization: ASDG Incorporated
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In article <2493@abaa.UUCP> esker@abaa.UUCP (Lawrence Esker) writes:
>The Mount program is case dependent on the "Device=" line.  I had many fits
>on the RAD: device when I used "Device = RamDrive.device".  Mount would not
>mount the device AND never gave any error messages.  Only thing that worked
>was "Device = ramdrive.device".

You are absolutely right, but for the wrong reasons.

It isn't actually mount's fault. It turns out the the operating system must
find a match between a device or libraries external and internal names. Un-
fortunately, the match is case sensitive. 

Almost nowhere else in the system does case matter. But here. It matters.

This should be considered a bug and fixed.


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