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- From: bubblz@ecst.csuchico.edu (Boy Wonder)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Dismounting a Device?
- Message-ID: <1gj811INNg16@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 00:14:25 GMT
- References: <1gagj8INN73u@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> <1gicdnINNijs@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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- In article <1gicdnINNijs@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> ad010@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Wilhelm Stiefelhagen) writes:
- >
- >I do not remeber 1.3, but with 2.04 you can use assign:
- >example assign mo0: dismount
- >will dismount my Magnetooptical drive.
- >(Ask with assign ?, if the 1.3 assign allows that.)
- >The manual tells something like: Do not use it, unless you are a
- >programmer and knowing what you are doing.
- >So I used it only a few times (but without problems) when testing
- >a new edited mountlist without willing to reboot after every correction.
- >
- Yup. That seems to be the general consensus, only under 1.3 the syntax is:
- assign <device>: remove
- I can't see any reason to not use it. You'd have to be REAL stupid to mess
- anything up by re-assigning a device. Maybe something like:
- assign SYS: NULL: :-)
-
- Well, thanks for the input everyone. (even the people who told me I
- was insane for using messydos, and should use multidos instead)
-
- -Jason
-