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Re: BFFS Icons



Hello Gunther

>> I discovered BFFS recently. Excellent. Solved my problem of having a
>> shared filesystem between AmigaOS and NetBSD (couldn't get msdos
>> partition to work).
> 
>  Please be careful. Use BFFS _only_ for reading partitions. The amiga
>  implementation is buggy.

Really? Isn't it the old story about not setting the volume's clean bit
only? AFAIR this was the only problem I really encoutered.

>> But to your question, as far as I know you can't 'Leave out' disks from
>> WB.
> 
>  With 3.5 its easy, just instruct the workbench to hide the BFFS volumes
>  in question. I have no idea for older version of AmigaOS.

It would probably require writing a small patch unless one forgets the
original WorkBench and use something much smarter like e.g. Dopus Magellan.
I chose the latter ;-)

Regards
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