Subject: Re: Easy Assigns for IBM/Amiga Imagine?
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 13:54:40 -0700
From: Lesk@cc.snow.edu (Lesk)

>
>I was thinking that this makes a transfer of projects IBM<->AMiga hard,
>if not impossible.

Yep!

>
>I'd like for all of us to discuss another way to do this... My proposal
>will follow.
>
>It seems that the common directories necessary between IBM & Amiga would
>be the PROJECTS, OBJECTS, MAPS, EFFECTS, and TEXTURES. Bearing in mind
>IBM's limitations, I'd like to propose this:
>
>        PROJECTS:       becomes P: for Amiga & IBM
>        OBJECTS:        becomes O: for Amiga & IBM
>        MAPS:           becomes M: for Amiga & IBM
>        EFFECTS:        becomes X: for Amiga & IBM
>        TEXTURES:       becomes T: for Amiga & IBM
>This way, Amiga users can simply ASSIGN the letters above, and IBM users
>just define LASTDRIVE in config.sys to X, and use the letters as devices.
>This will work on the IBM, won't it?

Uh uh! nope! nadda! and anything else! I got amiga dos so I would not have
to go through such cryptic garbage as this! It's bad enough that our
texture names are reduced to eight chars, I am sure not going to change my
system to conform to MSdos constraints!

However I do think an arexx or c++ application could be written and shared
that would convert those file paths automatically between machines. I like
the idea of sharing projects, I do not like the idea of confining and
limiting O.S. structures.


                                                Render Ho!
                                                  Lesk




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