Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pushing ASSIGN to the limit?
Message-ID: <2228.AA2228@heimat>
Date: 26 Aug 88 02:25:53 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <2259@ihlpm.ATT.COM>, jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes:

>In an effort to ease the pain in changing all programs that access
>RAM: to VD0: or RAD: (when it comes out) I was wondering if I could
>simply do an:
>	ASSIGN RAM: VD0:
>
 No this doesn't work. You can not assign any existing device to another.
 Do an "assign" command and anything after the word "Devices:" (at the end)
 can not be reassigned.

>Along the same lines, can I do an
>	ASSIGN DH0: VD0:
>so that I have access to my ram disk inside of DPaintII. (Boy their file
>requester sure is brain dead!) BTW, I don't have a hard disk.
>
 Now this one will work provided "DH0:" doesn't exist.

>(And what if I ASSIGN my DF1: somewhere else? Can I do it?)
>
 Sure you can do that - like in the case of "Assign df1: df2:" (provided df1:
 does not exist and df2: does). Only thing is that df1: is actually assigned
 to the volume name of the disk in df2: and not the device df2: - again this
 can be seen via the assign command.

 If you do want to use an external device as df1: try adding an entry to your
 mountlist and mounting it! Heres the one I have been using for about 5 months
 now:

/* MOUNTLIST file for allowing an external 3.5" (DF2:) to be mounted as DF1:
*/

DF1:       Device = trackdisk.device
           Unit   = 2
           Flags  = 1
           Surfaces  = 2
           BlocksPerTrack = 11
           Reserved = 2
           PreAlloc = 11
           Interleave = 0
           LowCyl = 0  ;  HighCyl = 79
           Buffers = 20
           BufMemType = 3
#

>					|	Mike Davis


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