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- From: /G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: TeX/Wimp/Morley SCSIFS/keyboardhandler
- Message-ID: <ARM200-921222012210-5D147CDB*@MHS>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:22:10 GMT
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- altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec16.101159.26305@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
- tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:
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- >>4. Has anyone noticed this "bug" in the Morley SCSIFS :
- [...]
- >> Morley claims that the drive must be mounted each time the user clicks
- >> on the iconbar. But ADFS doesn't mount the disc...
- >> Can anyone shed some light on this. Is the behaviour of the Morley card
- >> normal ?
- >It's the way morley do it - obviously they execute a dir or similar command
- >to mount the disk, whereas the best way of causing filecore to mount the
- >disk but not set the CSD is to do something like read the attributes of
- >the $ directory object (what our filers do). I didn't know the morley
- >software did it, I'll shout at Gary today, I have to call him anyway....
-
- It's possible I'm being very thick here, but what's the problem with just
- issuing a Message_FilerOpenDir at the root of the relevant disc and letting
- FileCore sort the mess out?
-
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