Fwd: Current drive name

[Simon Lord]

My posts sometimes appear to get eaten along the way...

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Simon Lord <slord at mac.com>
> Date: Thu Jun 27, 2002  11:36:41 PM America/Montreal
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Current drive name
>
> This is a Mac OSX related question.
>
> When I get the full path to my stack it returns something like this:
>
> stack "/Applications/MetaCard/directory-navigation.mc"
>
> My question is, how can I tell which *drive* the stack is on?  
> I have upwards of 5 drives (3 internal, 2 external).  My stack 
> has it's own directory navigation system made for SGI's way 
> back in the old days and it works fine under OSX as long as I 
> don't try to go to the root directory under OSX.  As soon as I 
> try I completely lose the path to the stack which not only 
> needs the drive name now, but has to be precluded by the word 
> "/Volumes".
>
> The "Volumes" problem is easy, but I'd appreciate any tips on 
> getting the name of the drive the stack or standalone is 
> currently sitting on.