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From: cp26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Thomas Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Public Folder Can Access Your _Entire_ HD
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Date: 7 Nov 89 18:47:08 GMT
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Let's see..
Recently, jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) wrote:

>Anyone know how to access a volume _other_than_ the boot volume?  It
>seems not to be a supported feature, although a bit of the documentation
>seems to imply this is possible.

Sure.  No problem.  The default for the public folder is listed as
":Public:".  This means that PF will go after the folder named "Public"
on the boot drive.  If you want to specify a volume other than the boot
drive, omit the leading colon from the pathname.

>Example:<  If the folder that you want to make the public folder is
called "Fred" and it is on the volume "Hobbes" which is >NOT< the boot
volume, then the pathname you would specify is:

   Hobbes:Fred:
  ^ Note: no colon in front!!

I've been using this here at CMU and it works really well.

-Chris Parker
cp26@andrew.cmu.edu

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