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Mike,
Always happy to help. Since I now know you have a single drive I do have
some general tips/rules for you.
If it's not on the WB disk, resist the temptation to PATH. Pathing is a
powerful method of configuring your command set, but unless the OS can access
it immediately, your "Insert Volume Bargle:" requesters will increase
expontentialy.
Copy your most used commands to ram: and _then_ path to that. This may seem
contridictory to the above, but ram: is _always_ available. A 'copy c:copy
ram:' then a 'path ram: add' will mean when you invoke COPY, you won't get the
'Insert Volume WorkBench'. Use it sparingly. Anothr method is to copy the
commands you'll be using to ram: and then ASSIGNing c: to ram: This eats a lot
of memory, so pick your command set with care. A simple script file in your s:
directory to do it is handy. The Amiga OS is very flexible in this regard,
with pathing and assigning add a great deal of power to setting things up to
ease your chores.
ALWAYS REMEMEBER TO PATH TO THINGS! With a single drive, the system must be
told where things are. Even with multiple floppy drives and HD, pathing things
out is a necesity at times, and makes use of the CLI a lot easier.
Learn how to set up your Startup-Sequence. You need a text editor, but once
you learn the AmigaDOS commands, you can have the system boot to _YOUR_
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