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From: new@udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: Determining disk devices
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Date: 8 Jan 90 16:55:49 GMT
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In article <2924@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore) writes:
>In article <570@shodha.dec.com>, ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder) writes...
>>I have always thought that file requesters shouldn't be putting up
>>*drive* buttons, they should be putting up *volume* buttons.  This
>>would make network filesystems more transparent (to applications) too.
>
>How would you then be able to access a volume not currently mounted? 
>Having the drives allows you to put a disk in, then call the drive to 
>access the volume.

You do it the same way that Workbench does it.  When a disk is inserted,
add that volume name to the list of available volumes.  Actually, I think
one of the early versions of DPaint or DVideo did something very similar
to this, and I really liked it.  

On a side note, I really hate the TurboSilver file requestor. It puts up
the names unsorted, then leaves them unsorted until you scroll, which
rearranges all the names into order. If you're going to sort names, 
sort during insertion, not after the scan is complete!  That's
like rearranging all the windows every time you resize any one. -- Darren