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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel.anu.edu.au!sserve!prolix!prolix.apana.org.au!dac
  2. From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  4. Subject: Problems with ALIAS and scripts under WB3.0
  5. Message-ID: <qOd9s*oH0@prolix.apana.org.au>
  6. Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:30:18 GMT
  7. Organization: More like Dis~, really.
  8. X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2
  9. Lines: 110
  10.  
  11. After having moved over to WB3.0 on the A4000, I found that a few of my
  12. aliases and script files no longer worked correctly.
  13.  
  14. I'm using Wshell 2.0 and the standard Kickstart/Workbench that came
  15. supplied on my Amiga.
  16.  
  17. Version reports:
  18.  
  19. version                   
  20. --> version                       
  21. Kickstart 39.106, Workbench 39.29
  22.  
  23.  
  24. Problem 1: If I enter a command that isn't in the path, the machine tries
  25.            to interrogate DF0:.  This is pretty annoying, since I don't
  26.            know what caused it to occur!
  27.  
  28.            My assigns and path don't reference df0:
  29.  
  30. Dac> path                
  31. Current_directory           
  32. Ram Disk:                   
  33. Workbench:C                 
  34. Workbench:Utilities         
  35. Workbench:Rexxc             
  36. Workbench:System            
  37. Workbench:S                 
  38. Workbench:Prefs             
  39. Workbench:WBStartup         
  40. Workbench:Tools             
  41. Workbench:Tools/Commodities 
  42. Quantum:sc/c                
  43. Workbench:myc               
  44. Quantum:uucp2/c             
  45. Quantum:uucp2/s             
  46. Quantum:point               
  47. Quantum:paint               
  48. C:
  49.  
  50. Dac> assign                                   
  51. Volumes:                                         
  52. Ram Disk [Mounted]                               
  53. Work [Mounted]                                   
  54. Quantum [Mounted]                                
  55. Workbench [Mounted]                              
  56.                                                  
  57. Directories:                                     
  58. ADPRO          Quantum:hdisks/fh3/Graphics/newpro
  59. UUman          Quantum:uucp2/man                 
  60. GETTY          Quantum:uucp2/lib                 
  61. UUlib          Quantum:uucp2/lib                 
  62. UUnews         Quantum:newsdir/news              
  63. UUmail         Quantum:uucp2/mail                
  64. UUspool        Quantum:uucp2/spool
  65. UUcp           Quantum:uucp2                     
  66. Dload          Quantum:hdisks/fh3/Comms/downloads
  67. MailText       Quantum:point/pcug/text           
  68. Mail           Quantum:point/pcug                
  69. Paint          Quantum:paint                     
  70. Point          Quantum:point                     
  71. include        Quantum:sc/include                
  72. lib            Quantum:sc/lib                    
  73. sc             Quantum:sc                        
  74. fh3            Quantum:hdisks/fh3                
  75. HELP           <LOCALE:Help>                     
  76. LOCALE         Workbench:Locale                  
  77. KEYMAPS        Workbench:Devs/Keymaps            
  78. PRINTERS       Workbench:Devs/Printers           
  79. REXX           Workbench:rexx/rexx               
  80. CLIPS          Ram Disk:Clipboards               
  81. T              Ram Disk:T                        
  82. ENV            Ram Disk:ENV                      
  83. ENVARC         Workbench:Prefs/Env-Archive       
  84. SYS            Workbench:                        
  85. C              Workbench:C                       
  86. S              Workbench:S                       
  87.              + Quantum:S2.04                     
  88. LIBS           Workbench:Libs                    
  89.              + Workbench:Classes                 
  90. DEVS           Workbench:Devs
  91. DEVS           Workbench:Devs                     
  92. FONTS          Workbench:Fonts                    
  93. L              Workbench:L                        
  94.                                                   
  95. Devices:                                          
  96. CON PIP CNC UUSER NULL                            
  97. PC0 RAM RAW SER PAR                               
  98. PRT HD0 DF0 FH0 DF2                               
  99. HD1                                               
  100.  
  101. Problem 2: When aliases are expanded I get a '-->xxx' output, where 'xxx'
  102.            is the true command name. Never seen that happen under WB 2.04
  103.  
  104.            Can this 'feature' be turned off?
  105.  
  106.            It could be a Wshell 2.0 artifact, but I can't find any
  107.            reference to the feature in the manual.
  108.  
  109. Problem 3: Using multiple path assigns (assign c:  xxx add) is cool, but
  110.            when any operation is tried on c:, only the first assigned path
  111.            is checked. This makes it somewhat less useful than I had
  112.            thought the feature would be.
  113.  
  114. Email welcomed. Thanks in advance.
  115.  
  116. Dac
  117. --
  118. dac@prolix.apana.org.au              David Andrew Clayton.           // _| _  _
  119. dac@prolix.sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au      Canberra, Australia           \X/ (_](_](_
  120.                     <Using ARN on an Amiga 4000. Yay!>
  121.