Subject: Re: Easy Assigns for IBM/Amiga Imagine?
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 18:48:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: Michael Halleen <halleen@Mercury.mcs.com>

On Fri, 13 May 1994, Lesk wrote:

> >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!

Right on.

> 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.

Maybe this is so obvious that you didn't mention it, but wouldn't it 
be really easy to go through an ASL decompiled project and replace all the
Amiga assigns with DOS directories?  You could do it with a word processor.






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