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Assigning Devs: etc.
« on: July 30, 2004, 03:41:49 PM »
I'm trying to setup user Devs:, C:, etc. assigns.  To do so, I've added lines like:

ASSIGN Devs: WB2:MyDevs ADD

To my user-startup file.  According to the manual and various websites (such as this one: http://www.amigarealm.com/archives/thisoldworkbench/html/towb23.html) this should be possible.  Then I do:

ASSIGN

And surely enough the expected paths are displayed.  Then I do:

DIR Devs:

or

LIST Devs:

And I only see the files in one of the paths (namely WB2:Devs, which was assigned by the system.)  I go through the same thing for C: and have the same symptoms.  Fine.

Now I try to do something with these new paths.  Stuff in the system and user C: assign seem to work.  The stuff in the Devs: assign doesn't seem to work.  Is there anything unique about Devs: which would explain why this doesn't work, or should I be looking for the problem elsewhere.
 

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Re: Assigning Devs: etc.
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2004, 04:14:17 PM »
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Piru wrote:
Applications need to support multiassigns to take advantage of other than the first assign destination. Shell does this for C:, ramlib does this for DEVS: (OpenDevice) and LIBS: (OpenLibrary).


Thank-you for that bit.  Now was there any point in the past when ramlib didn't support multiple assigns for Devs: (eg. I'm using Workbench 2.04)?