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- From: ry53@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Angela Schmidt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Getting a valid FileSysStartupMsg pointers.
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 12:29:20 GMT
- Organization: Nessyhoehle@I501.NessyNet.de
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- References: <1992Dec13.030020.13319@mail.cornell.edu> <71731@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec18.232602.24034@mail.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec18.232602.24034@mail.cornell.edu>, chris@132.236.236.32 (Christopher A. Wolf) writes:
- > In article <71731@cup.portal.com> Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON) writes:
- > > What I did was create a little routine that checked the name against a
- > > list which includes all the devices I wish to ignore such as:
- > >
- > > PIPE, RAM, RAD, VD0, SER, PAR, ect...
-
- > This is rather an unacceptable hack since there is no guaranteed consistency
- > of device names between different configurations, OSs or machines.
-
- That's right! You _never_ should use this method!
-
- > SER: and PAR: and I think PIPE: can easily be filtered out by doing an
- > IsFileSystem(). RAM: and RAD: seem to be well-behaved and place a NULL
- > in the dol_StartUp. VD0: behavior I'm not sure about.
-
- RAM: will place $00000000 into dol_Startup, but _my_ RAD: has a normal
- fssm! So I can use DiskCopy with RAD: and my disk editor will also
- be able to access it. If your RAD: has no fssm in dol_Startup, you
- probably have a non-standard RAD:. BTW VD0: has a real fssm in dol_Startup,
- too.
-
- I like devices with either a real fssm or $00000000 in dol_Startup... ;-)
-
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