Deleting Files
To try this command, place your Workbench disk
in
drive
O.
You may be working on several versions
of
a program or textfile, and wish to
delete earlier versions
of
that file, or want to get rid
of
files you
don't
need
anymore.
The
DELETE
command lets you erase files and gives the space back to
AmigaDOS.
NOTE:
If you delete files, it
is
not possible to retrieve them. Be certain that you
really want to delete them.
Here is a sample command sequence, which creates a file using the redirection
command
(
»,
types
it
to the screen to see that the file
is
really there, then
deletes the file.
DIR > stuff
TYPE stuff
DELETE stuff
TYPE stuff
To
the final command in the above sequence, AmigaDOS responds:
Can't Open stuff
indicating that the file named stuff
can't
be found, because you deleted it.
Copying Files
You can copy files with one disk drive or two. On a single disk system, it's a
little more complex.
To
copy single files, you must copy certain files from your system disk (Work-
bench) into the system memory. This
is
called using the RAM: device, often
known as a RAM disk.
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