Relabeling A Disk; Looking At A Directory - Commodore Amiga 500 User Manual

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Follow
the
instructions
given by the
computer.
You
can
format
disks in
either
drive (the
drive
built into
your Amiga,
dfO:
)
or
an external
drive
.
Wait for
the
disk
activity light to
go off (after
the
formatting
is completed)
,
and
remove the freshly formatted
disk
.
Reinsert
your
Workbench
disk.
The formatted
disk
fan now be used to hold data
files
.
Relabeling a Disk
Insert
your copy of
Workbench into drive 0 to try
this
command
.
If,
after either
copying
or formatting a
disk,
you
want to change
the volume
name
, use
the RELABEL
command;
for
example
, to change the name of the
disk
we
just
formatted from AnyName to
MyOisk,
type:
RELABEL AnyName: MyDisk
In thi
s
example,
we've
referred to the disk we
just formatted
by
its volume
name
.
You
are
asked
to insert
volume AnyName
into
any
di
sk drive so
that
RELABEL
can
relabel
it.
After
this
command
is
completed
,
remove
the disk
and
reinsert your Workbench
di
sk
. The
"
AnyName
"
disk
you
removed
now has the new name
.
Looking at a Directory
To
try
this
command, your
Workbench
disk
should be in drive
O.
To look
at
the
contents of a
disk
,
issue the
command:
DIR
AmigaOOS
and
the
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