rivero@kovacs.UUCP (Michael Foster Rivero) (11/06/85)
------------------------- I just got my development system, and I have a couple of questions for other developers. When the workbench disk boots, it calls a file called Startup-Sequence in /s. Is there a similar file that is automatically called when the CLI is started up? Also, I tried using the icon-driven diskcopy in workbench and got a very cryptic set of instructions. I wound up using the CLI version instead. Anybody know how to work the icon version? Michael Rivero
bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett) (11/10/85)
> When the workbench disk boots, it calls a file called > Startup-Sequence in /s. Is there a similar file that is > automatically called when the CLI is started up? Yes, and no... "Yes" the :s/Startup-Sequence file is executed every time you boot your system. If you remove the "LOADWB" and/or the "ENDCLI" commands in the current startup-sequence, and add your own commands you will be left in the CLI with your environment set up the way you like. (Many developers used "Workbench diskettes" striped of everything but CLI style commands. No need to run WB, then (re)open the CLI. And "no", neither opening the CLI icon or typing "newcli" will execute any startup files. > Also, I tried using the icon-driven diskcopy in workbench > and got a very cryptic set of instructions. I wound up using > the CLI version instead. Anybody know how to work the icon > version? If you got a copy of "Intro to Amiga" (I guess a lot of developers have not, based on what I hear here) It describes how to diskcopy. Basicly you have 3 options: 1) On a 1 drive system the best bet is to: Boot Workbench, insert the diskette you wish to copy, use the menu button to choose Workbench-Duplicate. Swap 3 times (512k system) and you're done. 2) On a 2 drive system: insert the disketteS you want to copy FROM and TO, drag the FROM diskette over the TO diskette. This will work even if the TO diskette is uninitialized. In this case the to diskette will have a name like DF1:BAD or DF1:NODOS. 3) If you insist on clicking the diskcopy Icon to do your copies (there really is no need to) do it as follows: Insert both diskettes, hold down the shift key, select (with mouse) the FROM, then the TO diskette icons, keeping the shift key depressed double click the diskcopy ICON. One last word of advice / Warning??: When the requester asks for "Foo" (from disk) and "Bar" (to disk) it really DOES NOT CARE what disk you put where. It will copy from DFx: to DFy: without regard to volume labels,... Hope this helps and happy hacking!