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============================= AssignWedge 1.1 =============================
===========================================================================
An AmigaDOS utility written by Olaf `Olsen' Barthel. © Copyright 1992 by
Olaf `Olsen' Barthel, public domain, all rights reserved.
No guarantee of any kind is made that the program(s) described in this
document are 100% reliable. You use this material on your own risk.
================================= Purpose ================================
===========================================================================
In a discussion held on a german network the benefits of internationalizing
the operating system were considered doubtful, mainly due to the fact that
a couple of useful programs, such as `Arq' and `AssignX', would no longer
work correctly since they would rely on the existance of certain system
requester strings which were expected to change under an internationalized
version of the OS.
I the course of events I decided to find out how easy (of difficult) it
would be to teach `AssignX' to cope with different system requester texts.
While I started to `cure a symptom', I ended up redesigning the program
from the ground up. Although based on Steve Tibbet's original program, it
shares no code with the original version.
============================== Installation ===============================
===========================================================================
`AssignWedge' can be put into the S:User-Startup file (just add the line
`Run >NIL: AssignWedge', if used in conjuction with `Arq', enter the line
_after_ `Arq' is invoked), or dropped into the SYS:WBStartup drawer.
================================== Usage ==================================
===========================================================================
Just like the original program, the `please insert volume...' system
requester is redirected to a routine which displays a different requester
with the following choices:
Retry.......... Will cause the filing system which put up the requester to
take a second look at the device table. Usually, inserting
a disk will cause the requester to close, just as if this
button had been pressed.
Assign......... A directory requester will be opened which allows you to
select a path an assignment bearing the volume name the
system requester was indicating will be made to.
Mount.......... The `Mount' command will be executed, if possible trying to
mount a new device to bear the name indicated by the system
requester.
Deny........... Denies the process which caused the filing system to bring
up the requester access to the device in question. If the
requester was brought up by a Shell command, access will be
denied to the shell command, not the Shell it was started
from.
Cancel......... Tell the calling program that any attempts to locate the
device in question have failed.
================================= Author ==================================
===========================================================================
Just like the original `AssignX' program, the program and the accompanying
source code are are placed in the public domain. Bug reports, enhancement
requests, etc. should be directed to:
Olaf Barthel
Brabeckstrasse 35
D-3000 Hannover 71
Federal Republic of Germany
EMail:
Z-Net: O.BARTHEL@A-Link-H
Usenet: o.barthel@a-link-h.comlink.de
olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org