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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Determining disk devices
Message-ID: <9278@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Jan 90 18:58:41 GMT
References: <331@sed170.HAC.COM> <9223@cbmvax.commodore.com> <129936@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <129936@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <9223@cbmvax.commodore.com> (Andy Finkel) writes:
>>For now (and, if you always want to be safe) run through the list
>>twice, and only report the devices that have matching volume nodes.
>
>Uh Andy, there is this problem that if there isn't a disk in the
>floppy drive you would never put it's button up on the screen using
>your method no? So people running DPAINT from the ram disk without
>having any floppies in drives would just get RAM: ? Hmmm, looks a 
>little weak to me. Lets just say in the documentation "Well, we can't

Why would you present a choice to the user than can't be selected ?
As a reminder to the user that the floppy drive is present ?  So
the user can bring up the requester to remind him/herself that
a floppy should be inserted into one of those drives ?

If there isn't a floppy in the drive, you can't load or same to
it...so shouldn't that selection be ghosted at least ?

You don't see Workbench giving you icons for every drive you
have in the system, whether or not it has a disk...why do
you want file requesters to do this ?

			andy
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