CompuServe Messages

Steve – I also have many volumes. Remember, that every mounted partition on a HD is a volume (currently, I have 6 mounted) the ram disk(s) are volume(s), floppies are volumes, and there may be other classes of items that are volumes. In my file requester design, there are three lists – one is for the files of the target type, one if for directories that are located in the current requester search level, and finally there is one that contains all the mounted volumes, and (this is important) it can ALSO contain all the active ASSIGNMENTS. That lets the user decide what volumes are available, and what constitutes a volume as well. You click to the item you're interested, and you're there – clicking on a volume gets you there, on an assign gets you there, and on a directory gets you into that dir. Clicking on a file selects that file. I don't think that any approach which makes any of these levels into a round-robin type of dance is acceptable in the Amiga environment, especially since the Amiga environment is extensable by the user to almost any degree imaginable. If you include assigns in a requestors capability (which you sure ought to) then it's not only impractical, it's downright silly.