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From: mlelstv@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MSDOS: (Re: Shareware request)
Message-ID: <711@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 27 Oct 88 16:50:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: faui10.711
References: <8810131005.AA13277@MATH.Tau.Ac.IL> <2816@sugar.uu.net> <4994@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: mlelstv@faui44.UUCP (Michael van Elst (kdebugger))
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, W - Germany
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In article <4994@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:
>In article <2816@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>Right, and another when you want to *stop* using the DOS format and use your
>>amiga drive again (something to tell doshandler.device to go away). These
>>are the commands I'm calling 'dosmount' and 'dosunmount'.
>
>Why not just inhibit the handler you're not using ?
Why not doing anything at all ?
Usually, we have a AmigaDOS FileSystem on trackdisk-formatted disks.
And we have MSDOS FileSystem on ibmdisk-formatted disks. (ibmdisk.device
is nearly completed and reads/writes standard ibm mfm-format).
Now, if you insert an AmigaDOS disk then AmigaDOS recognizes the disk and
the MS-DOS handler says DFx:BAD and vice versa.
You may say that this DFx:BAD is not nice (since the disk isn't really bad),
but inhibiting the handler leads to a DFx:BUSY. That is not much difference 
on the display.

An idea for kickstart 1.4: let the user hide unwanted disk icons.
I have 4 partitions on my harddisk, RAM, RAD, 2 drives and my workbench screen
is filled with icons.

				Michael van Elst

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