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From: roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: "Disk names starting with numbers are a problem"
Message-ID: <1766@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 13:18:22 EST
Article-I.D.: cognos.1766
Posted: Mon Nov 16 13:18:22 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Nov-87 02:49:20 EST
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
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One of my colleagues finally received a long-awaited Rodime "45 Plus" drive,
and we quickly started putting up a working environment.  This drive comes
preformatted, and with the disk named "45 Plus".  HyperCard started exhibiting
some peculiar behaviour when switching between stacks, and it turns out that
a stack pathname which begins "45 Plus:folder_name:etc" is reduced to "stack
45" somewhere within the mind of HyperCard.  It is a bit of a shock to get the
standard file-open dialogue box asking 'where is card x of stack 45?', when
pressing the exit button from the help stack!  Easy to get round, just re-name
the disk, but I do not recall *anywhere* seeing a restriction forbidding
volume (or folder) names to beginning with non-numerics.

If someone from Rodime is out there, perhaps they should be aware that "45
Plus" is not, in practice, a good name for this excellent disk.

Comments, anyone?

Robert_S
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