On 9/7/05 11:43 AM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob Warren wrote: > >> According to the Help, and also in practice, "the volumes" for discovering >> what physical drives or logical partitions a computer has "..... always >> returns empty on Unix systems". Perhaps I am a bit dim, but could someone >> tell me why? >> >> > On Windows, full file names have a distinct part which can be recognized > as the volume - e.g. > A:\myfile.txt > C:\Our Documents\Alex\RunRev\play.rev > The "A:" and the "C:" are the "volume" part. For example, on my system, > put the volumes > gives me > >> A: >> C: >> D: >> E: >> F: >> Z: > > > On Mac there is (presumably) something similar. Yes, Actually you get a volume for each mounted partition or drive on your system. If there's only one, it's path is like "/documents/mydoc.txt", but if there's more than one, you need to add "/Volumes/<volname>" before the path, as in: /Volumes/Shuttle/documents/mydoc.txt But "the volumes" returns just the names of the mounted partitions/drives. (in my case "Stormwinds" and "Shuttle"). > On Unix the form of a file name is simply > /top/next/another/path/name/part.txt > i.e. there is no part which can be uniquely recognized as a "volume". I guess Unix does something unique with the different partitions/drives that are accessible. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
