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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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Posted: Sat Oct  6 17:39:44 1984
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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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