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- John Foust (syndesis@beta.inc.net) wrote:
- : In article <134550@cup.portal.com>, DrGandalf@cup.portal.com (Eric J Fleischer) says:
- : >
- : >My
- : >solution, which he tells me works with a bit of careful planning, is to
- : >assign your working directory on the Amiga as D:, and in it put a directory
- : >called "\LW". The Amiga accepts the backslash as an alphanumeric,
- : >therefore an acceptable part of a directory name. Then be sure you always
- : >work on the Amiga in the "D:\LW/whatever" structure. When you move it to
- : >the NT system, it sees the backslash as part of the filestructure. The
- : >mixture of slashes and backslashes doesn't seem to bother NT.
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- : Very nifty trick. That method hadn't occurred to me. It doesn't
- : solve all the problems, but it solves some of them.
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- : I'm not sure if WinNT's "open file" function is oblivious to slash
- : char direction, or if LW itself was changing the slashes to
- : DOS style. The same trick would work on SGI, too. Question
- : for Unix-heads: how will the "D:" part be interpreted on the SGI?
- :
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- John, just curious, what problems does it not solve. I've designed scenes
- on the Amiga using that file structure including bitmaps for surfaces and
- they load just fine on both my NT machines, Alpha and Pentium. But I admit
- it's a bit of a kludge.
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- Dave Paige
- dave@melmac.umd.edu
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