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From: nic@dworld.UUCP (Nic Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: system shock, df0: --> a:
Summary: Try using AssignDev
Message-ID: <498@dworld.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 15:08:03 GMT
References: <1756@van-bc.UUCP> <7200036@uiucdcsm>
Reply-To: nic@dworld.UUCP (Nic Bernstein)
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Organization: Discovery World: Museum of Science, Economics and Technology inc.
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In article <7200036@uiucdcsm> roch@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>/* Written  3:24 pm  May 14, 1988 by lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP in uiucdcsm:comp.sys.amiga */
>In <4936@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, hutch@net1.ucsd.edu (Jim Hutchison) writes:
>>Is there a way to use something like Assign in some clever way to get
> >df0: to be called a:, and df1: to be called b: ?  If I could mount them
>Yes, it's...
>
>ASSIGN DF0: a:
>  or 
>ASSIGN DF1: b:
>
>|   //   Larry Phillips                                          |
>
>Almost Larry - it's
>	assign a: df0:
>	assign b: df1:	- arguments reversed
>
>				david

	Actually, as was already mentioned here before, Assign will assign
a: to the volume which is in the drive, not to the device itself.  A while
ago someone from CATS posted a PD program called AssignDev which I think
would allow this (sorry I forgot who it was, no slight intended) since it
allowed such manuevers as:

	AssignDev df2: df1:

	On a related note, can anybody think of a way to alias the root
character from : to / for all of us forgetful types?  Or how about mounting
a volume in the middle of another volume's hierarchy, and maybe some soft
and hard links, and how about.....

	Oh never mind, I must have been dreaming there...



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