Back in the good old days the assign command had an ability to remove an assign, eg.:

assign FOOOOO: dismount

It seems this feature was removed in V54 and moved to the DISMOUNT command. However, I'm not able to use it to remove desired assign (AmigaOS wiki offers no example for this purpose). Any help?

@pavlor

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pavlor wrote: Back in the good old days the assign command had an ability to remove an assign, eg.: assign FOOOOO: dismount It seems this feature was removed in V54 and moved to the DISMOUNT command. However, I'm not able to use it to remove desired assign (AmigaOS wiki offers no example for this purpose). Any help?

Have you tried....

assign FOOOOO: remove

@Rose

Thanks!

That was it. I was used just to write "dismount" and didn't look further in the assign docs (it's described there...).

@pavlor and @Rose

If you had read the docs you would know that remove is not what you want.

With remove you only remove one part of a multi-part assign.

To delete an entire assign, no matter if multi- or single-part, you use just

assign FOOOOO:

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@pavlor

Is it the same with the real Assign command? Or is the Assign and Dismount pair the AmgaKit copy?

Also the traditional way to remove mounts and other things is to reboot on Amiga.

@Hypex

What Thomas describes is what has been standard for decades.

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@kolla

After re-reading what pavlor wrote I see I was confused. Or rather missed that he meant assign. I thought he was talking about mounts. I somehow missed that he only meant assign when he said dismount. Since an assign cannot be dismounted, so that doesn't make sense. But I was aware that Assign has a DISMOUNT switch and that a Dismount command was also created for this purpose. Which is how I first made any sense of it.

@Hypex

"assign .... dismount" is for dismounting something previously mounted, so not surprising you were confused. I don't think "assign dismount" has ever removed an assign, only a mount. This is presumably why it was split out in OS4, as it didn't make any sense. Maybe there's some historic TRIPOS reason why it's part of Assign?

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This is just one of many topics where amigaos is riddled with inconsistencies and confusing “design choices”. Mount, Assign, Dismount, Eject… these should all either just be merged to one command, or grouped more logically (for example Mount REMOVE instead of Assign DISMOUNT)

Oh, and assigns, as much as a blessing they are, there is also a lot of undefined behaviors - ThoR’s MultiAssign tries to address some, but doesn’t fix all issues.

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@Chris_Y

I didn't feel confused when I read it at first but after what kolla pointed out I see I had confused it.

But it was the way it was written and Assign doesn't help by featuring a dismount. It probably is historic. Assign on OS4 still has dismount as well as added Dismount command. They didn't update AmigaDOS and implement CAOS the way it was meant to be. Suppose this would have broken TRIPOS more than OS2 did.

@kolla

I can see your poimt. What has always annoyed me, since using Linux at least, is how the Mount command is too complicated. Now I don't always remember the format for mount on Linux but it's easy enough to look up. On AmigaDOS you can't just mount a device with a single command. You've gotta make up a mount list that requires technical knowledge about the block device. I would have liked Mount to be updated so you could give it one liners and have it figure some things out.

@thomas and others

Thanks! I really enjoy learning more about Amiga peculiarities.