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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
icons,
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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