Subject: Re: Locating Mac Volumes in the Unix Filesystem...
To: Peter M. Pundy <peterp@strider.andyne.on.ca>
From: Jonathan AH Hogg <jonathan@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/06/1995 21:46:49
On Wed, 6 Sep 1995, Peter M. Pundy wrote:
> 1) Where in the unix file-system do I find Mac Volumes? Ideally, we need one
> standard place for this.
>
> Possible answers:
> "Volume1:" --> "/dev/Volume1"
> - or - "Volume1:" --> "/Mac/Volume1"
/Volume1
> 2) To what Macintosh path does the unix path "/" map?
>
> Possible answers:
> "/" --> "{BootDisk}:"
> - or - ???
{BootDisk}:Desktop Folder
logically it makes sense for / to be the desktop as would be seen when
browsing around the directory structure of a mac using the file open/save
dialog.
:-jonathan
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