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From: jesup@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Need help with trackdisk problem
Message-ID: <7167@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 21:51:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.7167
Posted: Mon Aug 31 21:51:58 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 00:35:38 EDT
References: <1041@unisec.usi.com> <594@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 40
Keywords: Amiga,help,trackdisk

[ in response to questions involving waiting for validator to finish ]

In article <594@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Can't you wait for a "disk inserted" idcmp message? After all, won't 
>intuition send one after the validator does its thing?

	Yes, or you can poll (evil, I know) every second or half-second doing
an info on the drive (GET_INFO or some such packet).

>>         6.  File exclusion capability.  Candidate filenames are checked
>>           against a user-specified file containing full, or partial pathname
>>             specifications.  Un*x wildcarding is supported.  Example:
>
>How about supporting AmigaDOS wildcarding? The File Name Requestor I posted
>to the net a month or so ago included a nice Amiga Wild Card handler. This
>isn't a UNIX machine... and AmigaDOS wildcarding is a bit more powerful
>than UNIX wildcarding. Especially since the one I grabbed and included handles
>such things as "file1|file2|file3" and "#(bigpat)".
>-- 
>-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter
>--                  U   <--- not a copyrighted cartoon :->

	The ARP library (which should be released very soon) includes
a file-requestor (by Charlie Heath), UNIX and Amiga wildcards, and many other
usefull routines.  Total size, about 8K.  (Note: this is all from memory).

	For your HD Backup program, I sincerely hope you can handle backups
to any device.  This would be MUCH appreciated by those that have SCSI tape
units, Bernoulii's (sp), multiple HD's, backup from 1 partition to another,
etc.  Also, I'm fairly sure that there will be a 'dont back up' bit somewhere
in the protection field in 1.3, so it would be nice if the user could specify
(in a file, or some other semi-permanent way) which bit it is.

	Randell Jesup
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