Amiga DOS Manual

468 Pages·1991·38.782 MB·English

by  Tim King, Jessica King

The
Am igaDOS
Manual
THIRD EDITION

The
AmigaDOS
Manual
THIRD EDITION
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
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This book, TheAmigaDOSManual,hasthree parts:
TheUser'sManual
TheDeoeloper'sManual
TheTechnicalReferenceManual
The User's Manual contains information of interest to every Amiga user.
There are many more commands that AmigaDOS understands than are accessi-
ble from the Workbench. If a user activates AmigaDOS Command Une
Interface,thesenew commands becomeaccessible.
The Developer'sManual describeshow to use AmigaDOS from within a pro-
gram rather than from a command line interface. It also fully documents the
Amiga Linker.
The TechnicalReferenceManual describesthe data structures that AmigaDOS
usesinternally. Itincludes descriptions of how DOS disk data are stored, and
the format ofthe "object-files" that AmigaDOS uses.Adeveloper or expertuser
would find the information in this technicalsectionvery useful.
Togetherthesethree parts comprise the essentialguide to AmigaDOS.
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Acknowle dgme nts
Thethird editionoftheAmigaOOSManualwaswritten byDanBaker,Randell
Iesup,[ohn Orr, [ohn Toebes, and Isabelle Vesey and edited by [ono
HardjowirogoandDanBaker.TheoriginalmanualwaswrittenbyTimKing.
A specialthanksto BruceBarrett,PatriaBrown,PamelaClare,Alan Coslett,
AndyFinkel,PaulFloyd,[essicaKing,Liz Laban,RobPeck,CarolynScheppner,
and Keith Stobie.Without their generouscontributions and suggestionsthis
manualwould nothavebeenpossible.
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