[net.micro.amiga] A way to ALIAS commands

bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett) (11/21/85)

    As you all know (don't you?) you can assign logical volume/device 
names to physical disk drive names such as:
	assign Source: df0:
	assign Destination: DF1:
	diskcopy source: to destination:

Useful?, yes, for some things.

Did you know you can also assign logical volume/device names to sub-
directories?  Such as:

	assign from: df0:devs/printers
	assign to: ram:
	copy from: to to:

*BUT*  the *FUN* one you may not have noticed is that you can assign
to FILE NAMES (read commands).  For example:

	assign x: c:execute
	assign e: c:ed
	assign cc: df1:c/LC

then use them like:

	x: startup-sequence
	e: my_text_file
	cc: foo -i df1:include

Assigns are SYSTEM WIDE, NOT unique to each window.

Have fun!

	BruceB