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- From: fisherc@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Craig Fisher)
- Subject: Re: Icons for assigns?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.065602.2168@bohra.cpg.oz.au>
- Summary: Use 'leave out'.
- Organization: Computer Power Software
- References: <alien.013w@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 06:56:02 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <alien.013w@> alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
- > I'd like to be able to put a "disk.info" icon into a directory, set up an
- > assign to that directory, and have the pseudo-disk icon appear with the
- > real disk icons on my Workbench.
- >
- > E.g.
- > makedir work:docs
- > copy work:disk.info work:docs/disk.info
- > assign docs: work:docs
- >
- > ... and viola :-) a new disk icon appears on my WB, which I can open and
- > find the docs: directory (I don't mind if I have to do a reset before the
- > new icon appears). The idea is that an assign should look just like a real
- > drive to the GUI, which it already does to the CLI. I tend to have a lot of
- > nested directories, and I'd like to be able to reach some of the more remote
- > ones without going on a hunting & fishing expedition down through my Work:
- > partition...
- >
- > Any thoughts? ("So don't nest your directories so much" doesn't count :-)
-
- Use the 'Leave Out' command in the Icon menu!
-
- -Craig
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