Disk space function

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sun Jun 1 20:04:02 EDT 2003


Really? I thought it was only providing the diskspace of the main
mounted volume... cool!

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Gaskin
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 7:43 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Cc: bugs at metacard.com
> Subject: Re: Disk space function
> 
> 
> Björnke von Gierke wrote:
> 
> > this is fun and all, but why don't you just use the "diskSpace" 
> > function build right into RunRe
> 
> Interesting: the MetaCard documentation describes the 
> diskspace function as being accepted as a valid function name 
> but not implemented and returning a fixed value.
> 
> However, I ran this in the MC message box:
> 
>   answer folder "Select a folder:"; set the directory to it; 
> put the diskspace
> 
> ...and it appears to work well on five mounted volumes here.
> 
> It seems sometime after the MC docs were written the function 
> was implemented in the engine but the docs not updated, and a 
> search in the MC 2.5 Read Me turned up nothing for "diskspace".  :\
> 
> -- 
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