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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Games That Multitask
Message-ID: <2033@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 15:25:12 GMT
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In <1926@eneevax.UUCP>, smaug@eneevax.UUCP (Kurt Lidl) writes:
> wanting in terms of sound effects.  At any rate, the game has an icon
> for Installtodh0 - a program that copies the program to a dh0:'s root
> directory.  So you say "But I don't have disk named dh0:" - it's all
> just an assign away.  Using:
>
> assign dh0: ram:
> installtodh0
>
> Will give you a playable version of the game from your ram-disk.  Please

Sounds good on the surface, but imagine a 2090 owner with 1 ST506 drive,
partitioned into 1 OFS partiton (DH0:, name forced by CBM) with just enough
to boot from, and another FFS partition that has lots of room.  Let's also
say the user doesn't want it in RAM:  Ever try to ASSIGN a name of an
existing device somewhere else?

Better they should have not made any assumptions, and stuck with the 'normal'
way of looking at the volume name, which would most likely be unique, and
assignable too.

-larry

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