Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!merlin.ukc.ac.uk!sal1 From: sal1@ukc.ac.uk (S.A.Lockhart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Pseudo Filing Systems via *set (and !Extract) Keywords: Filing systems Message-ID: <4420@merlin.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 25 Apr 91 12:05:56 GMT References: Reply-To: sal1@ukc.ac.uk (Simon Lockhart) Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 30 In article vanaards@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Steven van Aardt) writes: > > In the user guide it states that a pseudo filing system can be >created using the ':' . Ie you could do *. system: Well I've tried this >and it doesn't work. What you need to do is set a variable as follows: *set system$path Then when you refer to system:, the operating system will substitute in the value you put for . In article <1991Apr23.033416.23230@comp.vuw.ac.nz> jwright@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Julian Wright) writes: >It seems that !Extract wants a module to be present that is not commonly >available at present, if the unknown SWI message I got is anything to go >by. Further investigation into the compacted code reveals that this non- >existant SWI call only gets called if your WIMP has a version number less >than 2.85... Alan Murta replied: >Julian is certainly not alone in having unknown SWI problems with !Extract. >Does anyone know of a fix? If you look in comp.binaries.acorn now, Alan Glover has cancelled the original posting, and has reposted it with this, and several other bugs fixed. Obviously he was using Risc OS 3 (which doesn't exist :-) when he wrote !Extract. -- Simon Lockhart