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- From: arminl@tabaqui.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Armin Luetkenhaus)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: How to write a software that simulate a disk drive (volume)
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 13:38:38 GMT
- Organization: RWTH-Aachen, Deutschland
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- Message-ID: <1gnbguINNmr7@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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- Keywords: question, disk drive, volume, big problems, wizards wanted
-
- I'm going to write a piece of software that simulates a disk drive
- on the Macintosh.
- I want to mount a drive, i.e. make it appear on the desktop, make it
- accessible to all file system calls and map these calls to my own
- routines.
- Possible the user interface could be similar to Apple's "AppleShare":
- Another icon appears in the chooser, the user can click on this icon
- and a list of the available volumes the user can mount appears.
-
- Now to my question: I did never write such machine dependent code
- before. Has anybody experience with such problems and/or can someone
- give me some hints where I can get information about
- 1) adding a volume to the desktop
- 2) write chooser extensions?
- Any kind of help is welcome!!!
-
- Thanx in advance
- --- Armin ---
-
- P.S.: My problem (esp. "1") seems to be very similar to what one
- has to solve to write a ramdisk application. Does anyone know the authors
- of "AppDisk" or "MountImage"? I'm sure they could help me!
-
-