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SHELL is a "command line interface" (CLI) that provides a lot of features to interact with the operating system. |
SHELL is a "command line interface" (CLI) that provides a lot of features to interact with the operating system. |
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| − | Simply put, it means that you use an "interface" (in this case a shell window) to send commands to the computer |
+ | 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. |
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 === |
=== Starting a shell === |
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* Double click the Shell icon, that you can find in the System folder of the system partition. |
* 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". |
* Use the Execute requester of the Workbench and issue one of the following commands "newshell", "newcli" or "cli". |
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| − | Note that it's also possible to open a shell by a program but this is not covered by this manual. |
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| + | When you double click on a CLI or Shell icon (or start up CLI in any other |
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| + | way) you could say that you are "Opening a Window to AmigaDOS". |
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| + | Thus CLI is only a very small part of AmigaDOS. |
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Revision as of 17:42, 12 June 2012
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 the AmigaDOS commands.
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.
TODO: insert shell image
Starting a shell
- Double click the Shell icon, that you can find in the System folder of the system partition.
TODO: insert icon image
- 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.
