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- From bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett) Thu Nov 21 13:53:41 1985
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- From: bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
- Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
- Subject: A way to ALIAS commands
- Message-ID: <312@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Nov 85 19:53:41 GMT
- Date-Received: 22 Nov 85 14:08:55 GMT
- Reply-To: bruceb@hunter.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
- Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
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- Keywords: AmigaDOS alias execute
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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:
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- Useful?, yes, for some things.
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- Did you know you can also assign logical volume/device names to sub-
- directories? Such as:
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- assign from: df0:devs/printers
- assign to: ram:
- copy from: to to:
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- *BUT* the *FUN* one you may not have noticed is that you can assign
- to FILE NAMES (read commands). For example:
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- assign x: c:execute
- assign e: c:ed
- assign cc: df1:c/LC
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- then use them like:
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- x: startup-sequence
- e: my_text_file
- cc: foo -i df1:include
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- Assigns are SYSTEM WIDE, NOT unique to each window.
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- Have fun!
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- BruceB
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