Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver.UUCP Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: Q: names of physical devices? Message-ID: <1871@uw-beaver> 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 Lines: 21 From: Werner UhrigIn 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 -------