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From: john13@garfield.UUCP
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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
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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 to  at 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