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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Path problem ???
Message-ID: <41029@sun.uucp>
Date: 4 Feb 88 19:06:48 GMT
References: <2789@omepd>
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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In article <2789@omepd> (Hans Hansen) writes:
>	I have a real puzzler !  I have a diskette that WHILE inserted into
>either df0: or df1: or df2: (I have 3 3.5" drives) causes my A1000, running
>1.2 released S/W to forget all known paths.  As soon as I remove the diskette
>from whichever drive I have it in my Amy remembers?? what paths ARE!!! 

Ok, let me guess, it's coming to me, ah, ah, the name of this disk is "C"!
Am I right? For lots of fun, try naming one "LIBS" or "DEVS", or better
yet name it "DF1" and put it into DF0. We had a fairly lively discussion
at a recent BADGE meeting about name spaces and such (starting with the
serial device and then moving on to this wonderful property of disks to
'steal' assigns). And in general, since amigaDOS hardcodes C: into your
search path everything comes from the floppy disk when it is named C. 
If you have found a new name that causes this same problem then please
let us know. (Hmm, I don't think I have ever tried naming a disk SYS)


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