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From: m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Three (dumb) questions
Message-ID: <762@tnc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 91 15:28:18 GMT
References: <11280@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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In article <11280@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> drichard@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (David Richards) writes:
>Second, is it possible to assign a logical device name (like fonts:) to
>more than one directory.  I know that in VMS this is possible and it would
>be very useful in a situation I am working on with my Amiga.  If it is 
>possible, what is the syntax?
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
>drichard@jarthur.claremont.edu
>drichards@hmcvax.claremont.edu

Assigning a logical directory to a path list of real directories is
not supported under "vanilla" AmigaDOS.  *HOWEVER*  If you buy a copy
of WSHELL (from William Hawes, the creator of ConMan and ARexx),
included on the disk is something called PathMan.  It allows you to
create named paths for just about anything.  With PathMan, you
could do something like

FILENOTE PATH:Sys:Fonts,JRComm:JRFonts,Foo:Bar/NewFonts "FontPath"
(that should assign the note FontPath to a "file" actually a path
managed by PathMan containing the Path:... stuff.  PathMan "inverts"
the file note, so that FontPath becomes the name of the path).

ASSIGN FONTS: PATH:FontPath
(this will assign Fonts: to the path.  Whenever something refers to 
FONTS:, AmigaDOS will direct it to PathMan, which will search the
directories listed in the path definition).

LIST PATH:
(this will display all of the currently defined paths)

And whenever something searched Fonts:, PathMan would search all of
the volumes and directories listed (twice: the first time it would
search only the ones that were mounted, and suppress requestors.  If
the file was still not found, then it would search again, this time
putting up requestors for any volumes which were not mounted.

If you are using Arexx, take a look at WShell.  If you are not using
Arexx, then think seriously about getting both.

Wildstar

PS: I just got WShell in the mail the other day, and so I haven't
tried this yet, but it is all in the manual ...