Q: names of physical devices?
Posted: November 14th, 1984, 11:02 am
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Subject: Q: names of physical devices?
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Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 17:39:44 EDT
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From: Werner Uhrig
In one application (MS-BASIC), at least, it is necessary to use the full
disk name when OPENing files not on the same disk as the MS-BASIC (thank
you, Microsoft, for not going through "the trouble" to customize to the
Macintosh. Hope, declining sales will reward you properly).
Is there any way to get around spelling out the full name of the disk,
by using a physical device name instead? Is there any way to ask the
system to show you the name of the current disk without going back to the
DeskTop?
For example: currently I have to say:
OPEN 025 Wk MS-Basic Programs-1:useful program name
rather than
OPEN DSK1:useful program name
File-name completion ?? Noooo, that's for wimps, only. RIGHT !!! )=8
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From: [email protected]
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Subject: Q: names of physical devices?
Message-ID:
Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 17:39:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1871
Posted: Sat Oct 6 17:39:44 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 09:08:46 EDT
Sender: daemon@uw-beave
Organization: U of Washington Computer Science
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From: Werner Uhrig
In one application (MS-BASIC), at least, it is necessary to use the full
disk name when OPENing files not on the same disk as the MS-BASIC (thank
you, Microsoft, for not going through "the trouble" to customize to the
Macintosh. Hope, declining sales will reward you properly).
Is there any way to get around spelling out the full name of the disk,
by using a physical device name instead? Is there any way to ask the
system to show you the name of the current disk without going back to the
DeskTop?
For example: currently I have to say:
OPEN 025 Wk MS-Basic Programs-1:useful program name
rather than
OPEN DSK1:useful program name
File-name completion ?? Noooo, that's for wimps, only. RIGHT !!! )=8
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