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From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaDOS question
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Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 17:45:57 EDT
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>I have a question about how AmigaDOS 1.2 [CLI] locates commands. I copied a
>bunch of commands to ram:c and assigned c: to ram:c...

Assign redirects *all* of the command searching to ram:.  Better is to use
"path ram:c".  This will search ram:c *first* then, if not found, look
to your old c:.
With this method you copy the most used commands (cd, run, x, list, dir, type)
and leave the rest on disk.  This also saves memory, but you already bought
and extra 2 megs, right? :-) :-) :-)

Another good trick for one disk drive CLI users is to take advantage of the
"?".  For example, to get "info" about a disk, type "info ?", wait, put
the disk in, and then hit <return>.  Since "info" returns information on
the current disk in the drive, the only other possible way to use it would
be to have it copied into ram (as above).

>Jack Orenstein

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