Thread-topic: Mounting and Dismounting local or server volumes on Tiger
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On 10/18/05 21:46, "Dave Lyons" <email@hidden> wrote:
> The "Finder" way to get a list of disks is "every disk" or "disks".
> You can get the same easy-to-read output that "list disks" would give
> you, by writing "name of every disk" (or "name of disks"...short, but
> not quite grammatical).
>
> As I said earlier, I can't break eject "diskname" now that it
> works, I only wish I could. "List disks" is doing what it means to
> do, and it can't use Finder's terminology.
>
> If a scripter really wants to get a disk name from "list disks" and
> then use it with Finder, I merely suggest being explicit about it:
Well, to the casual scripter, they are. High level language. They expect the
Finder to be smart enough to look for something that can be ejected with
that name and eject it. If you aren't a programmer or a geek, it's perfectly
logical. That's what computers and the Finder are for, to take care of the
low level monkey work stuff.
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