Moving a Tool, Project, or Drawer to a New Disk
To
move a copy
of
a tool, project,
or
drawer
to a new disk, open the disk you
want to move it to, then drag the icon into the window for the disk.
Renaming Disks
To
rename a disk, select the icon for the disk, then choose Rename from the
Workbench menu. A message then appears asking you for a new name. Select
the window that appears, type
in
a
name,
then press the RETURN key.
RAM Disk
A
RAM
disk
is
an area
of
the
Amiga
' s random access memory used for operations
that normally involve disks.
When
you use the CLI to create a RAM disk,
or
when a program you are using creates a RAM disk for you, an icon for the RAM
disk appears on the Workbench.
The
advantage
in
using a RAM disk is that
programs stored
in
the
RAM
disk are accessed much faster than when loaded
from a disk drive.
Once an icon for a
RAM
disk appears
on
the
Workbench,
it remains there until
you reset
or
turn
off
your
Amiga
. You
cannot
create a RAM disk directly from
the Workbench.
See
Chapter
7 on the CLI for a
brief
discussion on how to do
this, and the
AmigaDOS Manual published by Bantam Books for a more
thorough explanation.
Expansion Drawer
The
Workbench contains an Expansion drawer into which you can place icons
for expansion devices (such as a hard disk) that you may add to your Amiga
system.
To
install these icon
s,
first
open
the Expansion drawer. Then simply
drag the icon that represents the driver file for the device into the Expansion
drawer.
The
driver file and its icon are supplied by the manufacturer
of
the
device.
Using the
Workbench
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