One of the most important features of the Workbench interface is that you can customize the ways it looks and operates. Making your preferences known is a function of the Preferences editor programs in the Prefs drawer. Although Preferences has been an integral part of Workbench since version 1.0, it has been completely reworked in version 2.0.
Preferences Editors The 13 Preferences editors let you modify the look and operation of Work bench. Many of the editors deal with the operation of peripheral devices that you hook up to your Amiga, such as a printer, modem, or monitor. Others let you control the visible attributes of Workbench; its colors, the fonts it uses, and so on. Still others let you perform such specialized functions as setting the internal clock-calendar and choosing keyboard equivalents to some common mouse functions. The changes you make to Workbench using the Preferences editors can be either temporary — in effect until you reboot your Amiga — or lasting. In the latter case, the selections will be saved to disk and reloaded each time you boot.
To find and reload your preferences every time you start your Amiga, the edi tors must save them in a special place. If you open the Prefs drawer and choose Show All from the Window menu, you'll see a drawer named Env-Archive. Inside is another drawer called Sys, that holds the files containing your Prefer ences settings. For example, your color preferences are stored in the file named palette.ilbm, while the name of any printer you've chosen with the Printer editor is stored in the file printer.prefs. Note that if you haven't made any Preference choices yet, these files will not exist. When you boot your com-
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