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From: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Arp 1.3 questions
Summary: Use PATH: device!
Keywords: arp 1.3
Message-ID: <558@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 18:44:33 GMT
References: <6899@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In article <6899@saturn.ucsc.edu> odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose) writes:
>	Also, does anyone know how to assign more than one directory to a 
>logical name (like 'assign C: JH0:c/ df0:c/').
>
>Thanks,
>Jon

You can do this sort of thing with a PATH: handler/device/whatever.  I
remember seeing a version of this in comp.binaries.amiga, but I use the
PathMan that came with the updated WShell that I got a while back (Thanks
Bill H., for a great package, even if ARP 1.3 now invades your turf a
bit...)  As an interesting/humorous point, I thought I had a problem when I
first set up the PATH: entry in my mountlist, because I was getting the text
"TAO" in my titlebar instead of "PATH".  Until I looked up "TAO" in the
dictionary... :-)  Sorry for digressing; this type of package will allow
multiple directories to be treated logically like one directory, and works
best for directories OTHER than C:, which can be handled fine with the
"normal" PATH statement.  For example, you can append several different FONT:
directories on your hard drive (or even on separate floppy drives) into one
logical directory.  Or with LIBS:, which is one way of checking out a package
which requires that its asdlkfjh.library be added to my LIBS: directory,
without losing the ones that are already there, if I simply reassign LIBS: to
a new directory.  Lots of nice uses indeed! 
-- 
   - Mike Shawaluk 
       (mikes@lakesys.lakesys.com  OR  ...!uunet!marque!lakesys!mikes)
    "Where were you on the night of August 12?"