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From: kms@ecsvax.UUCP (Ken Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: problem using "assign"
Keywords: find the dumb mistake
Message-ID: <7144@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 18:38:24 GMT
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Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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I am having some weird/silly problem using C-A's assign.  I want to
make the following assignment--

        assign LC:  L1:c
        assign INCLUDE:  L2:CompactH
        assign LIB: L2:lib
        assign QUAD: ram:

So I am just doing assigns to two different volumes. Not very
tricky, eh what?  Here is the problem.  The assignment of the second
disk produces the reassignment of the first disk to--

        LC:  Volume: L1

I've tried all sorts of variations: relabeling the disks with longer
names, very different names, doing the assigns individually (disks
already inserted or not), and so forth.  Each time the same thing
happens.  When the second assign occurs, the first assign is
changed (whatever the particular assigns).  And it is changed.  "lc
-L hello" fails to find lc1 and lc2.

It can't be that you can only do assigns to currently mounted
volumes.  What extremely dumb thing am I doing?  ARGHH! such
embarassment!

-- 
Ken Steele   Dept. of Psychology    kms@ecsvax.[bitnet || UUCP]
             Mars Hill College      kms@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
             Mars Hill, NC 28754