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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amiga Roadblocks to User Friendliness
Message-ID: <3159@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 27 Dec 88 15:15:57 GMT
References: <9910@gryphon.COM> <6546@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <10023@gryphon.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <10023@gryphon.COM>, keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) writes:
> Agreed, this
> technique will work, though assigns may also be useful in the process, 
> and startup script mods are still needed for PATH ADD commands

Any program that depends on PATH ADD is already hosed for workbench users.

> and any 
> other application related boot requirements, even if you eliminate any
> need for ASSIGNs.

About all I can think of here is loading device drivers and the like. I'd
rather solve this by adding "Assign()" and "Mount()" to dos.library. I'm
still amazed and disturbed that they're not in there already.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net