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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Disk Questions for WorkBench replacement project
Message-ID: <821@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 89 08:57:28 GMT
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Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb)
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c60c-1ea@web-4g.berkeley.edu (Yen Yuanchi Hsieh) wrote:
> 1)  How does one go about locking the correct disk if two or more
> have the same number.

I'd suppose it would just keep a lock on the drive.  It's been so long,
I forget what WB's bahaviour is in this area.

> 2)  in order to call format or diskcopy correctly, is any special
> information passed on to these programs?

I think Workbench just Execute()s them.  Note that this is not what happens
when you double-click (argc == 0 and all that).
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