Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!olivea!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu!meranda From: meranda@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (deron meranda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: N.U.W.Q. (New User With Questions) Keywords: help Message-ID: <88122@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 7 Feb 91 21:25:03 GMT References: <16416@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: deron meranda Distribution: usa Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 48 In article <16416@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> zz96sr@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Steve Rusk) writes: >... > 2. Is there documentation/help on what is on the WorkBench disk? >Something like what the "s", "c", "l", etc. directories are for. Among the less obvious directories on a virgin WB, are: C - Contains all the commands for the CLI or Shell Devs - Contains various device drivers, i.e. printer Expansion - Contains descriptions of any extra hardware that is not automatically recognized by the computer Fonts - Contains graphics bitmap data for text character sets L - Contains system handlers - kind of like device drivers Libs - Contains run-time sharable libraries S - Contains script files (interpreted program in the 'CLI' language) T - Used to hold temporary files >... > 4. Does anybody have a layman's explanation of "assign"? Every disk volume has a name, as well as every device. These names usually look like MyDisk:, RAM:, DF0:, etc. However, it would be nice to give names like these to just part of a disk, such as some directory, rather than use an entire disk. For example, if you had a directory MyDisk:SomeDirectory/Manuals which contained other files, you could refer to this directory as if it were its own disk by using the command: Assign Manuals: MyDisk:SomeDirectory/Manuals Now you can refer to these files as Manuals:chapter1 rather than the full name. Also, if you every want to move this directory, say to a hard disk, all you have to do is another Assign -- nothing else needs changed :-) > 5. What can be safely eliminated from the WorkBench disk? A good starting point is any files in the Utilities and System directories (note, leave DiskCopy -- Workbench uses it). Also, you can delete any fonts that you don't need from the Fonts directory. For each font with name "xyz", there is a directory named "xyz" as well as a file "xyz.font". ( The default fonts are in ROM, so you really don't need any of these ). You can also delete any unused device drivers that are in the directories Devs/keymaps and Devs/Printers. (They might have already moved most of the printers onto the Extras disk). There's a lot more that can be deleted, but it's best not to try it unless you really know what you're doing. Deron E. Meranda ( meranda@cis.ohio-state.edu )