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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Program wanted!
Message-ID: <90123.191702UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 3 May 90 23:17:02 GMT
References: <284@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <284@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
says:
>
>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
>


This is really just a instance of "A running program...", but another
reason is that from a CLI you have CD'd to a directory on the disk.  I guess
the CLI has a lock on the directory, but I thought this was worth mentioning
since it is easy to forget that the CLI is a "running program".

lee