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From: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.2R PATH question
Message-ID: <306@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 11:22:05 EST
Article-I.D.: cognos.306
Posted: Wed Jan 14 11:22:05 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Jan-87 23:47:05 EST
References: <1115@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <3388@garfield.UUCP>
Reply-To: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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Summary: 

In the operating system QNX (on IBM/PC), it has a very good scheme. It has two
things you can set, path and search. Path is where the system looks for
commands, and is a list of directories (without the disk drive portion), and
search is the search order of the drives for all file references without the
drive portion specified.

So, if we adopt this for Amiga, the search order for 2 floppy system might be
"ram: df0: df1:", and for hard disk system might be ram:/dh0:. The path might
be "c myc" -- on the drives in the search list -- or whatever. Very nice scheme
as long as you treat the drive specification above as "whatever disk happens to
be in the drive at the time the file open is made", and not as "whatever disk
happens to be in the drive when the search list is set".

By the way, I am not sure my postings are getting out, so I wouldn't mind some
flames!!
drive 
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