Subject: Re: Easy Assigns for IBM/Amiga Imagine?
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 16:12:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Andrew P. Vogel" <vogelap@ucunix.san.uc.EDU>

On Fri, 13 May 1994, Lesk wrote:

> >        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.
> 

Hi! I do a lot of cross-platform stuff, with some IBM folks, so I am 
willing to put up with these single-character assigns... Anyhow, it makes 
it faster to enter in the file requestor...

I _would_ like to see a way to autoMAGICally convert paths and all... I 
just downloaded a bunch of attributes that Soren Wind put together 
(thanks Soren!), and all the paths and all are screwy. I wish there was 
something to convert them automatically. I dread having to go into each 
and every attribute and edit them...

At any rate, it speaks for the need for standards... I really like 
Worley's suggestions, if we cannot agree on my proposal above...

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