How do MakeLink work
07-Dec-91 13:27:09
Sb: #42685-How do MakeLink work
Fm: John Pendergrass 76246,676
To: allan 70250,165
allan, your ASSIGN command looks correct. I think I see where the problem
is coming in though….
Your icon path is: ':c/muchmore'
What you have here is a very specific path, not the *assigned* c:
directory. The colon as the first character tells the system to start with
the root directory (which varies by how your system is set up), and then it
builds a path from there. So, roughly evaluating the path would lead to:
: start with your root directory, say: dh0:
c/ move to the c directory there: dh0:c
muchmore dh0:c/muchmore
The key is that you never really accessed 'c:'. You build a specific path
from scratch. So unless you have muchmore in this path, you will get a
file not found message.
Solution? Two that I see: 1) change the icon path to read: 'c:muchmore'.
Now you're accessing 'c:' and your ASSIGN statement should take care of it.
2) put 'sys:bin' in your search path. ie. 'PATH sys:c sys:bin'. That
should do it. I think.
–jp–seattle–