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- From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: WB2.1 & CrossDOS
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.200520.27209@enea.se>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 20:05:20 GMT
- References: <jwalkup.2um8@terapin.com>
- Organization: Enea Data AB
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- jwalkup@terapin.com (Jeff Walkup) writes:
- : I just installed WB2.1 on my A3000. Hey I like most of the new stuff,
- : like the new Format and Commodities Exchange.... but I've noticed a
- : problem here: If I move the PC0: (CrossDOS) icon into Devs/DOSDrivers
- : (so it gets mounted automatically upon startup), whenever I put an
- : AmigaDOS disk in the drive, I get two icons, one with the AmigaDOS name
- : and one named "PC0:????". This is really annoying. I know that
- : CrossDOS always has put a "DF0:????" icon up if you insert an Ms-DOS
- : disk (although I was hoping that Commodore would have 'fixed' that),
- : but now the reverse is also true... boo hiss. And here's the
- : really weird part: if I *DO NOT* auto-mount PC0: at startup, but
- : instead leave the icon in the Storage drawer and run it manually,
- : it *does not* do this (put up "PC0:????" when an Amiga disk is in).
-
- I beleive it's a feature...:-) A no-brain way to format a diskette in
- either format is to select the df0: or pc0: icon and choose format in
- the WB menu. Otherwise you would have to learn parameters and such
- stuff... :-)
-
- : ((Cue Twilight Zone theme... "you have entered another dimension...
- : the CROSSDOSZONE... doodoo doo doo doodooo doo doo..."))
- :
- :
- : * And one other thing I just noticed: Why was "RexxMast" removed
- : from the Startup-sequence? I couldn't figure out why my ARexx stuff
- : wasn't working until I noticed this. So I put it back in myself. Was
- : there a reason to take it out?
-
- I beleive it's supposed to be in the WBStartup folder.
-
- : --
- : Jeff Walkup --==<<Amiga-Video Guy>>==-- jwalkup@terapin.com
- :
- : Save the whales............... yeah funky mama save the whales!
-
- --
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- Tommy Petersson tope@enea.se Enea Data AB, Sweden
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