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From: SLMYQ@USU.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Changing Directories
Message-ID: <8804230242.AA03176@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 88 02:41:00 GMT
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>>Great.  So how can you tell what the system was booted off?  I didn't think
>>AmigaDOS would make it that easy! :)
>
>You shouldn't!  It isn't any program's business to know what the boot
>device was.  If you really need to know, ask.
>
>All we need is more software that doesn't let the user control it's
>operation.

Really now.  I can tell you haven't been following this discussion too
closely.  You're right that programs should'nt need to know what the
system was booted off of - usually.

The only time when you need to know is when AmigaDOS gives you one of
those crazy NULL locks as a current directory.  They're hard to work
with, to say the least. :) They refer to the boot device, and all I
want is to be able to get a *real* lock on the boot device when I find
one of those NULL locks, and switch over to that.  The only time this
would happen is if the user booted up the system, pressed CTRL-D before
anything could happen in the startup-sequence, and ran a program.  That
program would get a NULL lock as it's current directory.  Not too handy.

>Morgan Jones - Bramalea Software Inc.        morgan@brambo.UUCP

                                Bryan