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From: eberger@godot.psc.edu (Ed Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Determining disk devices
Summary: DPaintIII file requestor oddities
Message-ID: <728@godot.psc.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 90 18:24:24 GMT
References: <331@sed170.HAC.COM>
Reply-To: eberger@godot.UUCP (Ed Berger)
Organization: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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In article <331@sed170.HAC.COM> lee@sed170.UUCP (John Lee) writes:
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>While this does indeed locate all disk (i.e. directory-oriented) devices,
>it can also mistakenly return other devices, such as PIPE:.  To illustrate
>this, startup DPaint 1.3 and bring up the Load file-requester.  Note that
>PIPE: does not show up in the device buttons.  Now exit DPaint, copy
>something to 1.3's PIPE: (perhaps "run dir >PIPE:a"), let that hang and
>then startup DPaint 1.3 again.  Notice that PIPE: now shows up in the Load
>file-requester.


Since I use Runback in my startup-sequence, Deluxe Paint III mistakingly
displays NULL: as a diskdevice, as if I really wanted to load or save to
there.  I guess I could touch all my hardrive partitions first, and it will
run out of places to put it.  What is the current favorite file requestor,
with source Code?  I'll need one for some programs I'm working on, and I want
to avoid odd behaviors like this...

-Ed Berger
eberger@b.psc.edu




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