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From: rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Accessing mac files under CommandShell
Keywords: filesystem, Mac, pathnames
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.003608.13578@servalan.uucp>
Date: 16 Apr 91 00:36:08 GMT
References: <2808F5C4.24957@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
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rprohask@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska) writes:

>How does one get into the macintosh file system from an
>aux commandshell window?  Commando seems to think that

You can't access the MacOS partitions anyway except from the Finder and 
MacOS programs launched from the Finder.  Ordinary Unix processes can't
access files on the MacOS partitions. 

>"diskname:foldername:nextfoldername:......." is supposed to
>work.  Unfortunatly, aux announces "........bad directory" and
>I'm out of luck.

Commando is evidently confused.  At least on the current release, You Just
Can't Do That.  (It should be possible in principle to make MacOS volumes
appear as ordinary Unix partitions--it'd just an extra "vfs" virtual
filesystem module and a heck of a lot of coding--but so far nobody either
inside Apple or out has done the necessary coding.)

In short, you're outa luck.