Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!utah-cs!utah-gr!uplherc!esunix!blgardne From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: ASSIGN a filename? HELP! Message-ID: <304@esunix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 00:59:17 EST Article-I.D.: esunix.304 Posted: Mon Jan 5 00:59:17 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Jan-87 00:46:45 EST Lines: 31 Does anyone know of a way to reassign the name of a file? My problem is this: I've replaced ED and EDIT in my C directory with TxEd (highly recommended!). TxEd itself is named E, and TxEd and StarTerm expect it to be named E, or they can't find it. No problem, except other programs expect to find an editor called ED. And to make things worse, I just got hold of DirUtil II (4.0), and it wants to find an editor called (strangely enough :-) EDITOR. Now I know that I can reassign disks and directories with ASSIGN, but is there any way to do this with a file? Even though TxEd is only 25K, I really don't have the room on my WorkBench disk to keep 3 (or more) copies of it under different names in order to keep all these programs happy. What I'm after is a way to say: ED = E (or alias ED E) EDITOR = E ( alias EDITOR E). So that EDITOR, ED, and E will all find the same copy of TxEd which happens to be named E. Can anyone help, or is this a pipe dream? -- ================================================= "The Admiral is well aware of the regulations..." ================================================= Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland {ihnp4, decvax}!decwrl!esunix!blgardne 560 Arapeen Drive Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 (801) 582-5847