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From: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Using the PATH: device
Summary: Where handlers belong
Keywords: Doesn't use LC: assignment
Message-ID: <290@gtss.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 19:41:54 GMT
References: <866@koko.UUCP> <1099@tragicomix.liu.se> <5023@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Reply-To: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Organization: Georgia Tech School of Physics
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In article <5023@garfield.MUN.EDU> john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) writes:
)
)I have been having problems with PATH:. Our site didn't receive the docs...
)and I'm unable to actually create files in it. If I copy a file to
)path:file, or just to path:, or use some other method (redirection, saveas
)from DME, etc) I always get "error", "can't find ... " or some other
)message that indicates it couldn't open the file. What exactly do I need
)to do?

Sorry not to respond sooner, but I kept forgetting to check this when I was
home, and I usually read the news at work.  (Work?  You call this work???)

I had a similar problem when I installed PATH:.  What I had done was to put
the path-handler file in L:.  Silly me.  The mountlist has it as being in
DEVS:.

Now me, I changed the mountlist entry.  Handlers belong in L:.  Devices (and
other things I cannot find a collective noun for) belong in DEVS:.

Let's everybody try to remember this.

(And since I'm making such a big ass out of myself,  what is the difference
between a device and a handler anyway?)

-- 
-  It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be  -
-  coming up it.                                        -- Henry Allen  -
Charles Cleveland  Georgia Tech School of Physics  Atlanta, GA 30332-0430
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