User`s manual

The deskTop Screen
The deskTop, which is the first screen that appears after you boot GEOS,
enables you to gain access to and work with your files. It also allows you to
make decisions regarding disks, such
as copying or renaming them. This
chapter describes how
to use the deskTop to work with files and disks.
The
deskTop appears as follows:
close
command menu title bar icon
l I / /
file
icon
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printer icon waste ba;ket icon
The command menu lies along the top of the deskTop. Selecting each
item in the command menu will cause another menu of commands to
appear. To select a menu or a menu item, point to it and click.
Along the upper right side of the deskTop are the disk icons, which indicate
the disks that are currently in the disk drives. The disk drive containing the
currently active or open disk is black. You can have up to two disk icons,
each representing a disk
drive or RAM Expansion Unit.
The disk note pad is the large white
area in the middle of the screen. It
contains information about the currently open disk. The disk's name
appears in the title bar (in the above example, the name of the disk is
GEOS DESKTOP.
A close icon is displayed at the far right; click on it to
close (de-activate) the disk. The number of files, how much disk space is
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