Dilwyn Jones wrote: > There are device open functions out there in other toolkits which do the > same job without checking the TK2 defaults system.
This is an important point. This is not an OS feature, i.e. the raw TRAPs do not behave this way, it's strictly a feature of the BASIC commands. That was the only way it could be implemented back then as the OS was fixed. If another utility wraps the open call it will get the "raw" behaviour. Ralf Reköndt wrote: > It's really that awful, as OPEN tries the device you told it, then, if no > success, uses DATAD$ or somewhat others, DEV or such. DATAD$, PROGD$ or DESTD$ is prepended to the filename, depending on the call. DEV is just a device like any other I think. Note that I do not endorse this design in any way, the whole filename handling in QDOSMSQ is not, let's say, optimal. But as I said it's been this way for 30 years, I don't see any urgency to change it now. All the best, Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
