Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utegc!utai!garfield!john13 From: john13@garfield.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 1.2R PATH question Message-ID: <3388@garfield.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 23:34:01 EST Article-I.D.: garfield.3388 Posted: Sat Jan 10 23:34:01 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 03:35:33 EST References: <1115@spice.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) Organization: Memorial University of Nfld, St. John's Lines: 31 In article <1115@spice.cs.cmu.edu> mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes: > >What I want to do is set up a search path such that, if I have some >random disk in the drive and I type the name of a command or a program >that resides on the Workbench disk, the machine will pop up a >requestor saying "Insert Disk Workbench 1.2 in any drive". Then it >will load the command and program and I can go about my business. > >Right now, when I attempt this feat, the CLI barks something like >"Unknown command foobie.bletch". There is a whole range of stuff like this that should probably be looked at: - if I have path set to look at c: and drive_a:, and drive_a: is in the drive, it should look there first instead of having toat the "Insert Workbench" prompt (after which it will work) - it would be great to have directories like devs: on a path basis too; ie before forcing me to insert Workbench to load up the ser:, par:, ram: etc drivers, it should do something akin to an "if exists dfX:devs..." - if I have many K tied up with addbuffers, then this should function something like a "partial virtual disk drive"; it should know when I try to access track foo of disk bar: that the info is available from the buffer, even though the disk may have been removed On a completely unrelated topic, does Intuition actually eat right-Amiga-N/M sequences, as well as left-Amiga ones? I thought I was doing something wrong in the menu structure for "New (A)N", but all the other (identical) ones work perfectly. I realize, of course, that only the left-Amiga ones work for WBenchToFront and WBenchToBack. John