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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Usable standards
Keywords: requestors
Message-ID: <13374@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 03:36:10 GMT
References: <3419@leo.UUCP>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
Lines: 22

In article <3419@leo.UUCP> root@leo.UUCP ( Big Brother) writes:
>    My 2 cents.
>    Only 2 Amiga programs I can think of have useful hard disk requestors.
>    One is Calligrapher, the other is Professional Page.
>    (There are probably more, these just happen to stick out in my mind now)

>    Why do I say this? Simple. Not everybody has dh0: and dh1: as partition
>names. This will become even more a problem as people upgrade to 1.3 and
>start partitioning their drives.

Add the ARP file requester to that list.  It recognizes any logical or
physical device or volume.  Just click the right mouse button to get a
list of all the available devices.  It will include all your hard disk
partitions.  

The one I really like is DPaint II's requester.  Now just what is "dh:"?

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