Am 06.02.2004 um 05:10 schrieb David T. Lewis:

> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 04:32:32PM -0800, Michael Rueger wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> is there an (easy) way in Windows to
>>
>> - refer to the Desktop (or the user document folder)
>> - to enumerate network paths?
>
> Network paths would just be mapped to drive letters, which from
> Squeak are: "(FileDirectory on: '') directoryNames"
>
> An agreed naming convention for the the drive letter assignments
> and directory names may be all that's needed in many situations.

I thought drive letters are a thing of the past now? Isn't the Explorer 
structure mapped to the file system? On MacOSX, for example, the 
desktop folder is simply "$(HOME)/Desktop". Network shares can be found 
at "/Network" (which is managed by the automounter). That means I can 
access the shared folder on a remote Windows machine by simply pointing 
my Squeak file list to "/Network/WORKGROUP/MACHINE/SharedDocs".

In case MS didn't make it so simple, maybe the Win32 directory 
primitives could be extended to return the current list of available 
network shares when given the directory "\\"? Because you can then 
browse a remote machine by opening "\\MACHINE", right?

- Bert -