Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!btni!mcmi!ssbell!chris
From: chris@ssbell.UUCP (Chris Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Why is there a mount but no unmount?
Message-ID: <242@ssbell.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 88 16:55:29 GMT
References: <4643@garfield.UUCP>
Reply-To: chris@ssbell.UUCP (0000-Chris Olson)
Organization: Sterling Software, FSG-IMD, Bellevue, NE.
Lines: 26
Keywords: mount unmount path
Summary: Question as to why no unmount...

[ Death to the unbelievers!  Join me or die! -- this line for line-eaters ]

Does anyone out there know of any GOOD reason that commodore
forgot to supply an unmount command to go with the mount?
It has burned me a few times when I needed to unmount my
hard-drive in mid-session (say, while testing a PD program
for trojan horses), couldn't, and had to shut down my system
and find a boot disk which didn't mount the drive...

...if there isn't a real good reason, anyone out there feel
like:
     a)  writing one and releasing it to the public at large?
     b)  telling me how to go about it in nauseating detail?
     c)  showing me where I can get the information to do it
         myself?

...and if there is a good reason, explain to me why.  Anyone
know if unmount is in 1.3?

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