| From: | Joachim Thomas |
| Date: | 9 Sep 2000 at 13:26:57 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: A few questions... |
Hello Ed
On 09-Sep-00, Ed Dana wrote:
>ED That being said, however, the Assign command still needs to be there.
>ED Whether the file system is Hierarchical, Relational or Object, a single
>ED instance of an Object will still reside in a single place. I.e.
>ED Drive1:Applications\Graphics\Renderer\LightWave\<executable>. It would
>ED go beyond stupid to ignore the benefits of the Assign command. Whether
>ED that instance changes (you move it to a new drive or directory) or you
>ED have multiple instances (maintaining older versions for compatibility)
>ED it is simply *too* valuable not to be able to tell the system to "look
>ED here" for the program you want to use. Such is the power of that little
>ED command.
the original ASSIGN command has also some additional features in
handling/removing DEVICEs defined for the system (I hope there will be also
a device handling powerful and flexible like the old one we had... I'm still
using my a1200 to convert floppies/tapes/other data supports in strange
formats to standard data formats to be used under PC, Mac, PiclkSys, Linux,
ecc... :-) )
Regards
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'user-friendly'.... Their best approach, so far, has been to take all
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