Using Other Discs; What Happens When You Log On; Selecting Another Disc - Acorn computer econet level 2/3 User Manual

Using other discs

This section contains information which applies only if your
Econet file server has more than one disc drive.

What happens when you log on

Each time you log on, the file server selects one of the discs in
use as your logged disc. It does this by:
■ looking at the disc in its first disc unit for a
directory that has the same name as your identifier
■ if it finds one, logging you on to that disc
■ if not, trying the next disc
■ if it still fails to find a matching directory, logging you on
to the first disc, and selecting $ as your directory; you will
have only public access to $.
From then on, the file server uses your logged disc for saving and
loading. But you can, during an Econet session, switch to another
disc, if you want to use files stored there. This section describes
how.

Selecting another disc

To log on to a disc in another disc drive, you use the
command *SDISC.
Type: *SDISC <disc name>[RETURN]
Your network manager will tell you the names of the discs
available, so that you can use the *SDISC command.
Alternatively, you could find out the discs' names by using the
command *DISCS.
Type: *DISCS[RETURN]
*SDISC and *DISCS
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