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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Path problem ???
Message-ID: <6788@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 88 21:54:23 GMT
References: <2789@omepd> <41029@sun.uucp>
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
Lines: 32
Summary: It can be handy.

In article <41029@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> 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.
 
> 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.

I keep all of my fonts (quite a collection by now)  on various disks
named fonts.  FONTS: is still assigned to sys:fonts (actually in
vd0: but I don't think it matters.)  When I want a font that isn't in
sys:fonts, I just stick the correct disk in any drive and  I can use it
immediately without having to muck around with assigns or anything.  As
far as I can tell, I can use a font in either sys:fonts or the disk
named fonts.  (but I'm not sure about that one)  It's quite handy,
especially given most programs' inability to deal with more than about
20 fonts at once.  (Dpaint springs to mind.)  When I take the disk back
out, FONTS: is still correctly assigned to sys:fonts.


> 
> --Chuck McManis
> uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis   BIX: cmcmanis  ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com
> These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.



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Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP