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- From: lundgren@dd.chalmers.se (Lars Lundgren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Icons and Assigns
- Date: 7 Apr 1994 18:36:12 +0200
- Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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- Message-ID: <2o1cps$r9c@sauron.dd.chalmers.se>
- References: <1994Apr6.120442.13878@imada.ou.dk>
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- In article <1994Apr6.120442.13878@imada.ou.dk>,
- Bjorn Reese <breese@imada.ou.dk> wrote:
- >I'm looking for, or in case it doesn't exist, urging someone to write,
- >two small utilities which I have been missing very much lately.
- >
- ...
-
- >2) Saving to assigns
- >
- >Many applications insist on storing their pref/config files in S:.
- >I don't want them there (in fact I have locked my workbench partition
- >- virus paranoia,) so I've made and "assign S: <somewhere> add"
- >where they can be. Once the files have been put in the additional S:
- >everything works fine until I want to save them again; then they end
- >up in my initial S:. What I need is an utility to redirect them to
- >the proper place.
-
- Don't do an Assign ADD, do an Assign. Like I do:
-
- Assign S: Data:Sys/S Work:Sys/S SYS:S
-
- Writes will go to Data:Sys/S... This trick actually came from
- someone on the net, whose name I've forgotten.
-
- I've tried to keep stuff out of SYS: myself by using assigns,
- but partly failed; had to put datatypes and dosdrivers in SYS:
- I can't believe there are people who put all their programs in Sys:C ;
- C: is for commodore-supplied cli programs.
-
- >
- >BTW, this reminds me that I also want the various file-requesters (ASL,
- >Reqtools...) to display the contents of all directories linked to an
- >assign.
-
- There's a thing called "Path-handler", which came with WShell 2.0.
- You can for example do
- assign q: PATH:SYS:C,RAM:
- dir q:
-
- and a listing will come up of all files in C: _and_ RAM:, unless there
- are duplicate names. I don't know how well it works, and I know
- it wasn't exactly what you wanted...
-
- Jorgen
-