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A way to ALIAS commands [message #123430] Thu, 21 November 1985 14:53
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 14:53:41 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Nov-85 05:51:12 EST
Reply-To: bruceb@hunter.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
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    As you all know (don't you?) you can assign logical volume/device 
names to physical disk drive names such as:
	assign Source: df0:
	assign Destination: DF1:
	diskcopy source: to destination:

Useful?, yes, for some things.

Did you know you can also assign logical volume/device names to sub-
directories?  Such as:

	assign from: df0:devs/printers
	assign to: ram:
	copy from: to to:

*BUT*  the *FUN* one you may not have noticed is that you can assign
to FILE NAMES (read commands).  For example:

	assign x: c:execute
	assign e: c:ed
	assign cc: df1:c/LC

then use them like:

	x: startup-sequence
	e: my_text_file
	cc: foo -i df1:include

Assigns are SYSTEM WIDE, NOT unique to each window.

Have fun!

	BruceB
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