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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Program wanted!
Keywords: Disk icons that hang around
Message-ID: <284@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 3 May 90 00:33:06 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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Does anyone know of a program that can tell why a disk icon is present on
the WB screen?  I have never heard of such a thing, but it would be
mighty useful for those pesky icons that won't go away, but have no discernable
reason for staying.

I suspect there is no such thing (seeing as I have never heard of such a thing)
In this case, I may write it myself over the summer.  As far as I know, these
are the reasons why a disk icon is present on the WB screen:

	o The disk is physically in a drive
	o There is an 'assign' to some directory on the disk
	o A window on the disk is opened.
	o A running program has a lock on a file/directory on the disk

Ideally, the program (as run from a shell) would function like:
WB1.3> why_viz disk2:
The program "foobar" has a lock on disk2:foo/bar

If you know of a program to do this, or know of some reason an icon is
present I missed, or have any useful comments, please email.

Be warned, though, this account goes away 5/11/90...

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