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Figure 7-9 LogicalAssignments

The Assign command lists anything on your system that isfollowed by a colon. This includes volumes, assigned directories, and devices.

If you add an external floppy drive to an Amiga 500 or a second internal drive to an A2000 or an A3000, this drive is called DF1:. A second external drive on an A500 or the first external drive on an A2000 or an A3000 is called DF2:.

The Ram Disk whose icon appears when you boot your system also has a de vice name — RAM:. You will see this designation used most often when work ing in AmigaDOS because it does not contain a space. Hard drives and parti tions also have device names, and you can use these in place of the volume

names if you wish. The standard Amiga 3000 hard drive comes with two Amiga OS 2.0 partitions: System2.0 and Work. The device names of these volumes are WB_2.x: and WORK:

Command Templates Between the internal commands now stored in ROM (all commands were disk-based in earlier versions of AmigaDOS) and those in the C: directory, you


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