ARexx (9/23)

From:Joseph Duchâtelet
Date:13 Jul 2001 at 17:19:04
Subject:Re: Converting disk icon names to DOS devices

Hello Rolf

On 13-Jul-01, you wrote:

> On 13 Jul 2001, at 1:05, taoberly@mindspring.com wrote:
>
>>>> "Workbench" becomes "DH0:"
>
>>> Have a look at the examinedt() function from the datatypes.library.
>>> I'm pretty sure one of the fields is the full path of the item
>>> examined using device names.
>>
>> I don't have any programming documentation besides what shipped with
>> OS 3.1/3.5/3.9, so am not sure where else I could go to look it up. If
>> I ever decided to upload the script to Aminet, though, it would be
>> desirable to use an OS library.
>
> I dug out my Amiga Developer CD v2.1:
>
> datatypes.library/--rexxhost--
> datatypes.library/--rexxhost--
>
> HOST INTERFACE
> datatypes.library provides an ARexx function host interface that
> enables ARexx programs to take advantage of the features of
> datatypes.
Very interesting: Is this the only OS library featuring an arexx port ?

Joseph

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