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From: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: trouble with rad:
Message-ID: <428@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 89 13:18:24 GMT
References: <3656@utastro.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In article <3656@utastro.UUCP> sjk@utastro.UUCP (Scot Kleinman) writes:
>I finally spent the time and got 1.3 up and running on my 1000. I
>like the idea of the rad: device, but I am having some problems
>with it.  In my startup-sequence, I put a routine which will mount
>rad: and stick my most-used c commands there. Since rad: will
>survive re-boot, I put a line like 
>	if not exists rad:   [blah blah blah].
>This works fine once rad: has already been mounted and formatted,
>but the very first time I boot, a requestor appears asking me to
>input rad in any drive.  When  I hit cancel, the requestor goes
>away and everything continues along fine.  But, this is a nuisance,
>can it be avoided?

The answer to this question is a sort-of "RTFM", but not a harshly delivered
one!  Although the documentation which came with 1.3 didn't explain this one
explicitly, they *did* give an example script file which contains the
solution for your problem; namely,
	ASSIGN >nil: RAD: EXISTS
	IF NOT WARN [blah blah blah].
in place of your "if not exists..." line.  (I think I've got it right, but my
manual isn't within arm's reach at the moment).  This new enhancement to the
Assign command also comes in handy in a few other cases, such as for my
auto-rebooting Three Stooges boot disk, which checks to see if the key disk
(STG0) is still inserted in the drive, before I ASSIGN STG0: DH1:STG0 on
boot-up (which will fail if there is already a disk named STG0: inserted in a
drive.)

>Second, when  I format the drive, Ami asks me to insert a disk into
>rad: and hit return.  So, I hit return and all is well, but this is
>another annoyance and makes me hang around while the thing is
>booting.

The FORMAT and DISKCOPY commands can be made non-prompting by adding a
"<nil:" to their command line (*before* any of the other command line
arguments, of course...).  Again, this isn't well-explained in the 1.3 docs,
but it *is* there in one or two of the example script files.

>scot
>sjk@astro.as.utexas.edu
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