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- From: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!cryton.demon.co.uk!altman
- Subject: Re: TeX/Wimp/Morley SCSIFS/keyboardhandler
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- References: <ARM200-921222012210-5D147CDB*@MHS>
- Organization: The Serial Port
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:01:12 +0000
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- In article <ARM200-921222012210-5D147CDB*@MHS> /G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk writes:
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- >altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Dec16.101159.26305@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
- >tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:
- >
- >>>4. Has anyone noticed this "bug" in the Morley SCSIFS :
- >[...]
- >>> Morley claims that the drive must be mounted each time the user clicks
- >>> on the iconbar. But ADFS doesn't mount the disc...
- >>> Can anyone shed some light on this. Is the behaviour of the Morley card
- >>> normal ?
- >>It's the way morley do it - obviously they execute a dir or similar command
- >>to mount the disk, whereas the best way of causing filecore to mount the
- >>disk but not set the CSD is to do something like read the attributes of
- >>the $ directory object (what our filers do). I didn't know the morley
- >>software did it, I'll shout at Gary today, I have to call him anyway....
- >
- >It's possible I'm being very thick here, but what's the problem with just
- >issuing a Message_FilerOpenDir at the root of the relevant disc and letting
- >FileCore sort the mess out?
- Ah, but how do you get the nice disk name in the title of the filer window?
- You have to read it, then issue a opendir scsi::diskname.$ ... having
- windows topped with scsi::4.$ is a bit nasty, innit?
-
- Hugo
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