OS 3.9 Documentation

[sweetlilmre]

Hi,

So here is my dilemma:

I bought an Amiga 1200 off eBay, which came with a genuine 100% legal OS3.9 install CD. Cruising around the Vesalia site I see that their 3.9 package comes with PDF docco.

Being somewhat of a neophyte in the Amiga world, I would like to get hold of this PDF. Does anyone know if it is copyrighted, etc. or if not where I can get it from?

Thanks
-(e)

[Framiga]

i find this pages a good start!

http://www.gregdonner.org/os39faq/os39faq.html

about that PDF ... no clue where to find one

[sweetlilmre]

Hey!

Thanks for the info. This looks useful.
Is there an Amiga DOS reference? You have no idea how long it took me to find "endcli" (WHAT were they thinking? how about "quit" or "exit"!  :-o ) I suppose I would need an ARexx manual then as well..

 :-)  :-)  :-)
-(e)

[Framiga]

about AmigaDOS and Arexx docs/manuals, they were bundled with the original Commodore/AT machines.

No idea where to find them on the net ... ebay maybe

AmigaDOS commands

AmigaOS useful books

[amigakit]

We sell Arexx and AmigaDOS books:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=54

[Colani1200]

I would like to get hold of this PDF. Does anyone know if it is copyrighted, etc. or if not where I can get it from?

Basic documentation in PDF and HTML format can be found on the OS 3.9 CD itself. There is also a OS 3.9 book, this is a standalone product which was sold seperately.

You have no idea how long it took me to find "endcli" (WHAT were they thinking? how about "quit" or "exit"!  )

Don't forget that "endcli" is a mid 80ies command. Not sure how many products used "quit" or "exit" at that time.  :-D

[sweetlilmre]

Hi,

Thanks for all the great responses!
I am not on my way to being a not-total-Amiga-idiot  :-P
[edit] that should have read "now on my way..." :lol:
-(e)

[meega]

sweetlilmr wrote:
Hey!

Thanks for the info. This looks useful.
Is there an Amiga DOS reference? You have no idea how long it took me to find "endcli" (WHAT were they thinking? how about "quit" or "exit"!  :-o ) I suppose I would need an ARexx manual then as well..

 :-)  :-)  :-)
-(e)

I believe that they were thinking of providing an easy to remember complementary command to NewCLI - which opens a new CLI. ;-)

You could try EndShell - which does the same as EndCLI, and is the complement to NewShell, which is essentially the same as NewCLI. If all this is too much, and you don't want to edit the S:Shell-Startup, adding something like

Alias shutit endcli

then you could always try clicking on the Close gadget that should be somewhere on the window's borders (usually top-left corner) - at least after the initial boot CLI has finished and you are in the Workbench.

[murple]

Somewhere online is a plain text list of commands with instructions for 2.0, which is missing a lot of the new commands, but makes for a good quick cheatsheet. Ive got it bookmarked at home but I found it googling something like "amigados commands"...

This here covers up to 3.1 but is in Amiga format:
http://aminet.net/package/docs/help/adosbegin

This is kinda useful too:
http://www.ghira.mistral.co.uk/amiga/newbie.html

You have no idea how long it took me to find "endcli"

Haha same. Since then I've set up a bunch of aliases like "exit" for "endcli"... I also had aliases set up like "ls" for "list" and "cp" for "copy" but since I installed the GNU FileUtils off AmiNet I can just use the real things now

[meega]

Open a Shell/CLI window, and type

Resident

into it, and press return. You will then be given a list of the Internal (ROM) commands that are available (along with any others that have been made resident by using the Resident command in the startup-sequence or user-startup). Pick one and type in its name followed by a space and a ? and press return again, and it will show you its usage template (if it has one).