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From: carolyn@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ASSIGN T: RAM:T, and write-protect you boot disk
Message-ID: <1819@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-May-87 15:36:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1819
Posted: Fri May  1 15:36:37 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 5-May-87 04:40:40 EDT
References: <0174526P@NAVPGS>
Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <0174526P@NAVPGS> 4526P@NAVPGS.BITNET (LT Scott A. Norton, USN) writes:
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>        ...Just ASSIGN T: RAM: in the startup, and I can write
>protect my Workbench disk.  A couple of questions for the net:
>     
>- Am I harming myself subtley by not having t/ on a non-volatile
>device?  I don't use ED, so I'm not worried about t/ed-backup

   I always have T: assigned to a T directory in RAM:  Haven't had any
problems at all except for (as you mention) losing t/ed-backup if I crash.

>     
>- Why does EXECUTE need a t/ directory?

   I some cases when Execute is passed args, it needs to create a temp
file (I believe it's related to the substitution of those args into the
script).

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