Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!spa From: spa@fct.unl.pt (Salvador Pinto Abreu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Drive redirects Message-ID: Date: 15 Apr 91 18:14:58 GMT References: <3343@unccvax.uncc.edu> <1991Apr14.013716.13084@ecst.csuchico.edu> Sender: news@fct.unl.pt (USENET News System) Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: ralph@laas.fr's message of 15 Apr 91 08:42:39 GMT on 15 Apr 91 08:42:39 GMT, ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) said: [...] Ralph> What about changing "A:\" to simply "\", advancing the following Ralph> characters if necessary? Also, if programs would access with "\" Ralph> rather than hard-wire "A:", all this wouldn't be necessary. Right? It would be even better to remove the leading "\", thereby allowing you to just dump the stuff in a subdirectory, instead of cluttering up the root of some partition (which I like to keep small). -- -- Salvador Pinto Abreu or Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PORTUGAL