Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cognos.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!glee 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 Lines: 22 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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Godfrey Lee, Cognos Incorporated, 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1G 3N3 (613) 738-1440 decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!glee -----------------------------------------------------------------------------