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From: phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: forcing floppy mount
Message-ID: <3777@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Apr 89 09:04:24 GMT
References: <1306@naucse.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Science CSMVAX, Liverpool University
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In article <1306@naucse.UUCP>, rrw@naucse.UUCP (Robert Wier) writes:
> 
>  In a couple of communications programs I use (Kermit and Miniterm)
>  occasionally I will need to initalize a new floppy in order to do
>  some file transfers.  However, it seems that both of these program
>  mask off disk-insertion service routines.  I can see why you'd want
>  to do this if someone were to insert a disk while data is being
>  received, but it is irritating that I can't do it without exiting
>  the program (I know, I should just initialize all of them at once..
>  but I'm not that organzied!).
> 
>  Does anyone know of an fkey or da which can be used to force a 
>  floppy disk mount (and initialization if necessary)?
> 
I think that most programs ignore disk-inserted events during their normal
event-handling loop, but if you can get an SFdialog box to appear (in Kermit
whenever you're asked for a destination for a received file if you've set
"Attended - dialog for each file received" in the "File Defaults..." item
in the Settings menu) then inserting an unitialised disk will present you
with the usual "This disk is uninitialised..." dialog etc. and allow you
to format it.  It works for me when I use MacKermit!

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