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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: mattca on October 09, 2005, 07:14:17 PM
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Hi
I have a couple of questions, probably related.
I'm using OS 3.1, and as a beginner I've made a right mess of my hard disk :roll:
Rather than reinstalling everything (still learning!) is there an Amiga equivalent to Windows' "Shortcuts"? Because some of my programs are installed deep in the filesystem and it would be nice to have my most frequently used programs available on the desktop (or maybe even something like a Start Menu).
Also, I'd like to run a couple of things at startup, AmiTCP/IP for definite. Should I find out about the Startup-Preferences script or is that not what I think it is? I'm guessing it's an equivalent to config.sys/autoexec.bat on DOS systems...
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select icon, then use 'Icons/Leave Out' with right mouse button
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There's also programs such as Tools Daemon and Toolmanager on Aminet that will allow you to either add programs to the Tools menu or even create whole new ones that will appear to the right of Tools.
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use 'Icons/Leave Out'
I'll never get used to the terminology on this OS. 15 years of Windows has made me think that sounds wrong but it makes sense to leave the icon out of the drawer... Then the Clean Up option begins to make sense too! Thanky
edit: no it doesn't, I thought the CleanUp option would tidy away all the icons I left out. Definitely need to read that thick white book that came with the Amiga ;-)
I'll probably try those utils that edit the Tools menu, but since I'm still having trouble installing Voyager I better wait a while :crazy:
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The closest equivalent to the shortcuts feature of Windows is the makelink command. Unfortunately AOS 3 doesn't support soft links unless you get a 3rd party CLI replacement or makelink.tv off the Aminet.
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I wrote a little utility to add the same sort of feature that Windows has with the "Desktop" directory, but never quite finished it.
Basically it watched each drive's .leftout file (IIRC that's where WB stores the list of leftout icons) and whenever you "Leave Out" a new file, it links that file into a "Desktop" directory.
Mostly it was handy for quickly having access to files left out on your Workbench when you needed to load them into programs .. for example if you had a text file left out, you could get to it quickly by going to the Desktop directory instead of navigating to wherever on your drive it was actually located.
I think it would also add any files you put into the Desktop directory to the .leftout file so that they would show on the Workbench as well.
If anyone's interested, I could upload the (Blitz2) source.. but it's a simple enough program that rewriting it from scratch in C would probably be easier :-D