Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Assigns
Message-ID: <3414@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 16:41:11 GMT
References: <8802270215.AA06588@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8802270215.AA06588@jade.berkeley.edu> FATQW@USU.BITNET (Bryan Ford) writes:
>Also, maybe as just an idea to ponder.  How about making things so you can
>Assign a logical name to more than one directory?  Then you could, say,

Assign names are just an external representation of a lock.  We'd
break programs big time if we tried to convert the lock list
to a 2 dimensional list.  Also, things would slow
down considerably, as the system could have to search a bunch
of directories before putting the 'not found' requester.
Being able to specify C: and *mean* the one and only C: is
a useful thing.

The command path is meant to provide multiple lock style
capability.

Now, maybe what you actually mean is that we should have a device
path and a library path.

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