CompuServe Thread

Try typing, "loadwb". That *should* do it. To have it happen automatically, there should be a line in your startup-sequence (near the end, probably) that goes, "loadwb" (w/o the quotes, of course)

>> When I turn on my computer I am in Amiga DOS. << You will always spend a little time during the startup cycle with a "console window" open; it's there while the Amiga sets up certain internal operations . to be more exact, while the script file "s:startup-sequence" is being executed. NOW: two things could happen that would leave you with a console window on the screen. FIRST: the system could run into some sort of error while it was executing s:startup-sequence, in which case you should see some sort of error indication. That's bad, but can be fixed. SECOND: Somebody who set up the system changed s:startup-sequence so that it deliberatly finished up in a CLI/Shell window (what you call 'Amiga DOS'). That's trivial to change, temporarily or permanently. First test: type ENDCLI in the console window, press RETURN, and see what happens. If you find yourself in a standard Workbench environment, with everything working OK, you're there. You could make the transfer permanent by adding a line ENDCLI >NIL: as the last line of your s:startup-sequence file. Second test: if ENDCLI gives you the equivalent of a blank screen, start again. Type LOADWB on one line, ENDCLI on the next. That should get you there for sure. Again, you could add these two lines to your s:startup-sequence file to make it happened every time you turned on. BUT FIRST: Look for any sign of error notices on the screen you get. If there is any such, tell us about it here, and we'll try to help. You could also carefully copy down the contents of your file S:startup-sequence (command TYPE S:STARTUP-SEQUENCE) and input it here for our examination. And, hey, tell us what machine/operating system you are working with. We might look for different things on a Workbench 1.2 system as compared to a DOS 3.1. –Jim