Difficulty using shell in Ubuntu Linux

[Bob Warren]

Stephen:

As a complement to what Gordon said, and now that the shell has 
magically begun working in my Ubuntu Linux, here is how I am managing to 
read the floppy in Ubuntu. The problem in Ubuntu is that although you 
can read the diskette by clicking on an icon, which automatically mounts 
the drive, if you try to read it directly in RR without doing this, it 
will not work because the drive hasn't been mounted yet. The solution is 
to use the shell to mount the drive every time before reading the 
diskette, and never to unmount it (unmounting will not work while your 
app is running anyway, because since the system knows the floppy is "in 
use", it is protected). This way, you can read the same diskette 
repeatedly, or change the diskette at will, and the contents will be 
correctly displayed:

on mouseUp
   get shell("mount /media/floppy0")
   set the defaultFolder to "/media/floppy"
   put the files into field "List1"
end mouseUp

For this function, no permissions are needed, of course. Sorry I can't 
yet expand on the subject more eloquently.

If anyone has a minute to spare, would they mind trying the above floppy 
routine on their non-Ubuntu Linux?

[I have only one Linux machine with Ubuntu installed, but I tried using 
a "live" CD of Kurumin Linux to test it. The routine half worked - I got 
a display of files, but they were from the HD rather than the diskette, 
and I noted a system error in RR - so I concluded that this might be 
because I was running the routine from a non-installed Linux and that 
the result might be different if I ran it from an installed version of 
Kurumin.]

Thanks.

Bob
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Gordon Tillman wrote:

 >Stephen I don't think so..

On Feb 8, 2006, at 13:11, Stephen Barncard >wrote:

 >> just a thought - does one have to be 'root' or at least set some
 >> permissions to use shell?


 >I'm using it from a non-root account, although it *is* an account
 >that can "sudo" if it needs to execute something as root for a single
 >command.

 >--gordy