RE: [MiNT] drive letters (was: Kernal questions)

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@medicaldataservice.de>]

> > > > > The main gripe I have with the current way is that my U: drive is
> > > > > cluttered with one-letter symbolic links to the drive names.  When
> > > > > working from CLI, I want those _NOT_ to appear on /,
> since I don't
> > > > > need them there;  I only need them within GEM.
> > > >
> > > > Then it would probably a better idea to make them hidden directory
> > > > entries. This wouldn't break anything.
> > >
> > > Exactly.  Accessible, but hidden from LS.  This would suit me
> perfectly.
> >
> > So... can we do this any soon? ;-)
>
> I'm not sure if this a good idea. I can make a test version first.

I would propose to just allow Fattrib() on the u: drive. This way,
interested people can use chmod.ttp during system startup to hide the
entries if they want to. Should be a painless change.

Regards, jr