CompuServe Messages

It's no harder than moving from CP/M to DOS. But you may be younger than that. Item (1): Filenames are longer, periods are not very significant, and they can have spaces in them if you put quotes around the whole name. Item (2): The forward slash is the subdirectory divider symbol and the backslash is legal in a file name. So, when you copy a file to a subdirectory and cannot find it later, look in the root directory for a file with the name of the top subdirectory. Item (3): * is not an alias (though it can be turned on). If you turn it on, it still isn't exactly like in DOS. Item (4): AmigaDos doesn't keep track of default directories. If you are in a subdirectory on one drive, switch to another drive, and then switch back, you will be in the root of the drive. Item (5): AmigaDos makes big use of the ASSIGN statement that DOS has but rarely uses. AmigaDos can assign long names to drives and some conventions have become standard. Don't try to create a C: physical drive because every program in the universe expects your default drive to have a directory named c and an assign that sets its alias to C:. Almost every program that uses type expects there to be an assign pointing to some directory under the name FONTS: (its actual name may be something entirely different). Item (6): AmigaDos doesn't assume a default destination for a copy. In DOS, Copy A:\*.* copies everything in A:\ to wherever you are. In AmigaDos, it blows up with too few parameters. * doesn't seem to work either. Get a point and shoot system like SID or Directory OPUS. It will make life a lot easier. And learn to write script files (like batch files).