RE: [MiNT] a possble solution to hiding TOS drives in u:\

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

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Maurits van de Kamp
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 12:03 PM
> To: mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] a possble solution to hiding TOS drives in u:\
>
>
>
> > This works well for me in my mint.cnf:
> >
> > cd u:\
> >
> > ren u:\a u:\.a
> > ren u:\b u:\.b
> > ren u:\c u:\.c
> > ren u:\d u:\.d
>
> Sure it does.. but the problem was that some programs might expect that
> all drives are available as u:\drivename, wasn't it? (I wasn't completely
> following the discussion, correct me if I'm wrong) :)

No, the point was that any available filesystem needs to be accessible
through the root of U:\ (because there is no getmntent() call). The name
doesn't really matter...