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From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Net: parallel port handler
Message-ID: <1600@sas.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 21:44:29 GMT
References: <1590@sas.UUCP> <1831@esunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <1831@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes:
>1) The docs say to name the icon you wish to use as the Drawer icon for
>the remote disks "node.info", but it must really be named "node.rinfo".
>Without the "r", it won't show up.

True.  Sigh.  Boy, am I tired of telling people this.  That'll teach me to
change my mind about the naming.

The problem is that if you name it 'node.info' it shows up as a drawer on 
the non-networked side.  'node.rinfo' doesn't.  I map the name anyway,
so it doesn't matter to me which it's called;  the .rinfo name keeps
from confusing workbench at least a little bit.

>
>2) The docs say you need to "ASSIGN ROOT: <path>". Well, not quite. You
>must assign ROOT: to a root directory. When assigned to "DH0:ParNet" I
>couldn't get the icons to show up on Workbench. But when I switched the
>assignment to "DH0:", it worked fine.

I'm not sure if the docs say it or not, but the node.rinfo file must be in
the root directory of the device you mount.  If you assign ROOT: to
DH0:ParNet, you must put node.rinfo in DH0:node.rinfo.  All transactions
across the network will go to DH0:, not DH0:ParNet. 

>Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland  580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
>Here:                                  There: (My Amiga running uucp)
>blgardne@esunix.UUCP                   blaine@worsel.UUCP
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