Creating A New Directory; Is My File Somewhere On This Disk? - Commodore Amiga 500 User Manual

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Creating a New Directory
You
can create a
new directory
(or
new drawer)
in whatever current
directory
you are working in with the MAKEDIR
command:
MAKEOIR newdrawer
Now,
if you
issue the OrR command,
you'll see
there
is
an entry for
:
newdrawer (dir)
The RENAME
command can also
be used to move
a
file from
one
directory
(drawer)
to
another on
the
same
disk
:
MAKEOIR newdrawer
RENAME FROM today TO newdrawer/today
moves
the
file from
the
current
directory
into
the
newdrawer you
have
created
.
To see
that it
'
s
really been moved
,
issue the
command
:
OIR
and
it isn't there. Then issue the
command:
DIR newdrawer
and
AmigaDOS looks in the newdrawer
,
and shows you
that
the file
named
"today" is there.
Is My File Somewhere on This Disk?
To try this
command
,
your copy of
Workbench should be
in
drive
O.
AmigaDOS
and
the
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