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From: phillip@cbmvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: AmigaDOS:  How to know if a file is on RAM:
Message-ID: <1406@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 08:31:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 13 08:31:46 1987
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> Keywords: AmigaDOS, RAM:, Lock(), ParentDir().
> Summary: You don't really
> 
> In a previous article, hsgj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Dan Green) writes:
>> [... Nice description of one way to get the Volume name left out ...]
>> 	Why am I writing?  Well right now I am assuming that if I
>> find a null filename in the fib_Filename field, then I must be
>> dealing with the RAM: disk.  This may or may not be a safe assumption.

The sure fire way of finding which device your dealing with is to:
pid = DeviceProc("RAM:");
if(pid == (lock<<2)->fl_Task)
   /* I am dealing with a lock on a ram: file or directory */
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