Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!bmacintyre
From: bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Getting workbench to mount a subdirectory...
Message-ID: <20591@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 90 17:03:47 GMT
References: <90036.140352EACONS@MTUS5.BITNET>
Reply-To: bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Organization: University of Waterloo
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EACONS@MTUS5.BITNET (Ernie Anderson) writes:
>   1) When we mount NFS (as sun: :-) it mounts it as the root directory
>   of the sun, rather than the local directory we have set up.

See below.

>   The obvious problem is that when we open the sun: disk icon, 
>   there isn't anything in it because there aren't any icons in the 
>   root directory of the sun.  What we want to know is how to make a 
>   disk icon that when opened, shows the contents of the local directory.
>   Can this be done?

Two possibilities:  get the local people to put .info files in their root
directory (hahaha) or use Jazzbench for the demos.  Then you can make it
show icons for the files that don't have icons.

>   3) Finally, the amiga's idea of the path is funny from the nfs-handler.
[ example, showing how the nfs device adds onto path, even when you go up
  the path tree ]
>   line.  This is not a *problem*, in that it doesn't affect usage of the
>   machine, but it is ugly, and hints at deeper problems.  Does anyone have
>   an idea about this one?

Problem one and this are the result of the path device being fairly simple
minded in it's approaches.  There are some other problems with it which
you may have not yet noticed, which I won't go into (none are critical, just
more of this inconvenient stuff)

Problem 2 exists because that behaviour was probably seen as the easiest
way to handle the conversion between Amigados and Unix paths (what with
symbolic links, .. and ., etc.)  True, there are simple mappings, but
they were not put in.  

Solution:  rewrite the device.  My friend did it, but hasn't done anything
with it because Matt said he was going to fix it himself.  Among the things
my friend fixed are the two problems you state above.

Remember, this NF0: was more of a demo than a specifically useful project.
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