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- ============================= AssignWedge 1.1 =============================
- ===========================================================================
- An AmigaDOS utility written by Olaf `Olsen' Barthel. © Copyright 1992 by
- Olaf `Olsen' Barthel, public domain, all rights reserved.
- No guarantee of any kind is made that the program(s) described in this
- document are 100% reliable. You use this material on your own risk.
-
- ================================= Purpose ================================
- ===========================================================================
- In a discussion held on a german network the benefits of internationalizing
- the operating system were considered doubtful, mainly due to the fact that
- a couple of useful programs, such as `Arq' and `AssignX', would no longer
- work correctly since they would rely on the existance of certain system
- requester strings which were expected to change under an internationalized
- version of the OS.
- I the course of events I decided to find out how easy (of difficult) it
- would be to teach `AssignX' to cope with different system requester texts.
- While I started to `cure a symptom', I ended up redesigning the program
- from the ground up. Although based on Steve Tibbet's original program, it
- shares no code with the original version.
-
- ============================== Installation ===============================
- ===========================================================================
- `AssignWedge' can be put into the S:User-Startup file (just add the line
- `Run >NIL: AssignWedge', if used in conjuction with `Arq', enter the line
- _after_ `Arq' is invoked), or dropped into the SYS:WBStartup drawer.
-
- ================================== Usage ==================================
- ===========================================================================
- Just like the original program, the `please insert volume...' system
- requester is redirected to a routine which displays a different requester
- with the following choices:
-
- Retry.......... Will cause the filing system which put up the requester to
- take a second look at the device table. Usually, inserting
- a disk will cause the requester to close, just as if this
- button had been pressed.
-
- Assign......... A directory requester will be opened which allows you to
- select a path an assignment bearing the volume name the
- system requester was indicating will be made to.
-
- Mount.......... The `Mount' command will be executed, if possible trying to
- mount a new device to bear the name indicated by the system
- requester.
-
- Deny........... Denies the process which caused the filing system to bring
- up the requester access to the device in question. If the
- requester was brought up by a Shell command, access will be
- denied to the shell command, not the Shell it was started
- from.
-
- Cancel......... Tell the calling program that any attempts to locate the
- device in question have failed.
-
- ================================= Author ==================================
- ===========================================================================
- Just like the original `AssignX' program, the program and the accompanying
- source code are are placed in the public domain. Bug reports, enhancement
- requests, etc. should be directed to:
-
- Olaf Barthel
- Brabeckstrasse 35
- D-3000 Hannover 71
-
- Federal Republic of Germany
-
- EMail:
-
- Z-Net: O.BARTHEL@A-Link-H
- Usenet: o.barthel@a-link-h.comlink.de
- olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org
-