Thanks Alex and Ken! I have just tried the same thing in RB and Rebol. RB also returns empty. Interestingly, Rebol gives a list of the partitions created by Linux - which at least is a bit more useful.
e.g. /usr /bin /boot /dev /home etc. Does this really mean that although a computer may have 2 or 3 physical drives, there is no way that RR can discover this in Linux? If so, I find that rather disappointing, don't you? Best, Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bob Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 1:43 PM Subject: Re: No volumes in Linux? > 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. > > 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". > > -- > Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/90 - Release Date: 05/09/2005 > _______________________________________________ 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
