Is there a way to run the format command from RAM?

[kedawa]

I have a massive stack of old PC disks to test and an A500 with only one floppy drive, and I would like to set it up so that I don't have to insert the Workbench 1.3 disk every time I want to format a disk.

I've tried making the command resident, but it gives me an error, and I've tried putting format in the ram disk, but it still asks for the disk, even though the ram disk is in the system path.

I don't know what else to try.

[kedawa]

Is that included with workbench?  Unfortunately I only have the disks that came with the Amiga and no way to get other software onto it.
Is RAM: the same as the ram disk?

Anyway, it's bed time, so I'll take another crack at it in the a.m.

[kedawa]

I just tried what Thomas suggested and it works fine now.
Thanks for the help everyone.
I'm assuming I can do this for other things as well, like diskcopy.
This will save me a lot of time when I back up all my stuff.

[kedawa]

I tried both with and without the PURE argument, and it returned an error either way.

[kedawa]

'add' does not exist in 1.3.

Are you certain? according to this, the following line is part of a 1.3 startup-sequence:

path ram: c: sys:utilities sys:system s: sys:prefs add

[kedawa]

So it's just an argument for that command?
I'm not really that familiar with amigados.