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From: charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enviroment (was Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....)
Message-ID: <5660013@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Sep 88 23:46:05 GMT
References: <8808192105.AA16960@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> I assume you are thinking of the following line:
>	Format drive DF0: name "MyDisk"

Yes.

>	And while MyDisk doesn't have a colon in it, one should also
> note that the reference is not to a volume anyway, but the naming of a
> disk which has  yet to exist (i.e. it will eventually become a
> volume).  Besides, Format  is a *very* specialized and special-case
> command.

I think you are splitting hairs.  I have to remember to omit the colon
here but use it most other places.  That is not intuitive.  Format
could have stripped off a trailing colon if it was there.  (CBM: This
could still be done to Format in the next AmigaDos without breaking
anything.  Hint! Hint!)

>	Come on, Give me a break!
>					-Matt

I am not trying to give you a hard time.  I am impressed by the
programming you have done.  However, your comment implied that any
program that (and by extension anyone who) confuses exactly when to
use a colon must be stupid.  I have been bit by Format over exactly
this problem.  I do not consider myself stupid.
So...  Give ME a break.
	Charles