Preferences
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tween programs.) The similarity between the drawer names for temporary Preferences storage in the Ram Disk and the permanent Preference files in the Env-Archive/Sys drawer is not coincidental. When you boot your computer, AmigaDOS copies all the drawers and files contained in Env-Archive to the Env directory on the Ram Disk.
The window of each Preferences editor has three action buttons: Save, Use, and Cancel. Cancel, of course, exits the editor without making any changes. Use saves the changes youVe made to the temporary file on the Ram Disk, which is the file with the hot link to Workbench via IPrefs. Save saves your changes to the Preferences files in both the Ram Disk and in the Env-Archive drawer. Thus, because saved changes are written to the Ram Disk file, which has a hot link to Workbench, and also to the disk file in Env-Archive, such changes both take effect right away and survive a system reboot. The very first time you open a Preferences editor after installing Amiga OS 2.0, it will try to read the previous settings you saved to the Env drawer on the Ram Disk. It will, of course, fail because you have yet to save any settings. The editor will put up one or more requesters saying that it can't read its particular Preference file or files. Simply select the OK button when this happens. A new requester appears, stating that the editor will use the Workbench default set tings. After you select OK, the editor window appears. Note that some editors such as the Font editor that create and use more than one Preference file will put up one requester for each settings file they work with.
The Preferences Menus Except for the Time editor, the Preferences editors share a common set of menus that provide a way to save and recall alternate settings. In addition, most of the editors let you save these alternate settings with an icon. After exiting an editor, you can switch from your current setting to an alternate one simply by double-clicking on the icon of the alternate. The Preferences menus are Project, Edit, and Options. Project: The project menu has three items: Open, Save As, and Quit.
Open: The first item lets you open a file preference setting you previously saved to dfek. Although you can save these settings anywhere, the default place to store them is the Presets drawer in the Prefs window. The files are called preset files.
The exact contents of a preset file depends on which editor you're using. If you are in the Fonts editor, for example, the file contains the name of one