AmigaDOS manual

AmigaDOS manual

Introduction

The AmigaDOS software is contained in files stored on the system partition. They all are binaries, either programs usable by the user or libraries or other sets of functions usable by AmigaDOS.

You can think of AmigaDOS as a complete system for operating the computer and its peripherals.

The Shell

SHELL is a "command line interface" (CLI) that provides a lot of features to interact with the operating system. Simply put, it means that you use an "interface" (in this case a shell window) to send lines of commands to the computer.

For historical reasons, you will still find references to the CLI in AmigaOS but this is really a shell that is used everywhere in the system.

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Starting a shell

• Double click the Shell icon, that you can find in the System folder of the system partition.

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• Use the Execute requester of the Workbench and issue one of the following commands "newshell", "newcli" or "cli".

When you double click on a CLI or Shell icon (or start up CLI in any other way) you could say that you are "Opening a Window to AmigaDOS".

Thus CLI is only a very small part of AmigaDOS.