Stealth disks
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I've noticed something about 3DS that is a little wierd. I have a
multifunction optical disk drive at work set up as drive G: and a CD-ROM
drive at home also set up as drive G:. (Both machines have stacked C and D
drives and E and F as the unstacked partitions on these drives)
I start 3DS from a batch file on both machines, typically:
D: CD \3DS2 SET RDPADI=….. SET VTPADI=….. 3DS CD \ C:
If I start the program at work with the MO cartridge out of the drive, or
at home with or without the CD-ROM in the drive the little "G" button
dosen't show up in any of the file selector panels. Also, since one of my
MAP paths points at the CD-ROM drive I get a message complaining about the
directory not existing.
If I put the MO cartridge in **before** I start 3DS, I get the "G" button.
If I log onto the CD-ROM drive and then run the 3DS batch file, I get the G
button and no path complaints. If I add: G: DIR to the top of the batch
file at home, everything works. Ideas??? Chris
When 3DS starts up, it looks for all currently-valid map paths for which
you've configured the program via either the 3DS.SET file or the 3DS.PRJ
default project file. If it looks for one that isn't there (such as when
you don't have a disk in the drive) it won't install that device.
– G