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section B:
Command Input
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Built-in Commands
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B.l.7. Built-in Commands
A
numbe~
of commands are firmly installed in the command
interpreter.
For reasons of CP/M compatibility, some commands are translated to other
command names. In the subsequent chapter, we will discuss these convent-
ions in detail.
A special format of built-in commands is changing the current drive. For
this purpose, you have to specify the drive name, followed by a colon:
B:
for example, defines drive B: as the current drive. The current drive is
indicated in the second field of the system status line.
The commands listed below are firmly installed:
USER
LIST
- Change user area
- Switch printer on
I
off
The following commands are translated:
DIR, DIRS or DIRSYS
ERA or ERASE
TYP or TYPE
REN or RENAME
- to $DIR
- to $ERASE
- to $TYPE
- to $RENAME
The utility programs as listed above and their tasks are:
DIR
- Display directory
DIRS, DIRSYS
- Display directory of system files, has the
ERA, ERASE
REN, RENAME
TYP, TYPE
same effect as ''DIR +SYSTEM"
- Erase files
- Rename files
- Display file contents
For details on the application of utilities,
please refer to the corre-
sponding chapters in section C of this manual. E.g., if you want to know
IJrecisely how to obtain a directory listing, you would read the descrip-
tion
of $DIR.
At this place,
we will give a brief description of
the
built-in commands.
EOS User's manual
Daeumling & Zimmermann
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