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

[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

[Thomas]

Making jokes? Read my quote again. It refers to Assign, not to Path.

[kedawa]

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

[paul1981]

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

Yes, ADD is one of the arguments for the Path command.
The Assign command under Workbench1.3 does not accept the argument ADD... this additional feature of Workbench/AmigaDOS appeared in Workbench2 onwards.