RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START AMOS RIGHT. FROM THE START User's Guide RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START DSM-00042-02 1992 Alpha Microsystems REVISIONS INCORPORATED REVISION DATE 00 March 1988 01 August 1988 02 April 1991 AMOS User's Guide To re-order this document, request part number DSO-00042-00. This document applies to AMOS versions 2.2 and later. The information contained in this manual is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, no responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or use of this information is assumed by Alpha Microsystems. This document may contain references to products covered under U.S. Patent Number 4,530,048. 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When you're through with this book, you can move on to more specialized documentation (on programming languages, word processing, and much more) save the Alpha Micro Documen- tation Library. AMOS User's Guide, Rev 02 AMOS User's Guide Page iii TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION TO THIS MANUAL 1.1 WHAT'S IN THIS BOOK . 1-1 1.1.1 AMOS . 1-2 1.2 SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS . 1-2 Part 1 Getting Your Hands On the System CHAPTER 2 - THE EQUIPMENT 2.1 FINDING OUT YOUR USER NAME . 2-1 2.2 TURNING THE SYSTEM ON . 2-2 2.3 TURNING THE SYSTEM OFF . 2-4 2.4 WHAT IS A TERMINAL? . 2-5 2.4.1 Prompt and Cursor Symbols . 2-5 2.5 LOGGING ON AND OFF THE SYSTEM . 2-6 2.5.1 Using your keyboard . 2-9 2.5.2 Control Characters . 2-10 2.5.3 Correcting Typing Mistakes . 2-12 2.6 CHANGING DISK CARTRIDGES AND FLOPPY DISKS . 2-12 2.6.1 The MOUNT Command . 2-13 CHAPTER 3 - REQUESTING INFORMATION FROM THE COMPUTER 3.1 THE HELP COMMAND . 3-1 3.2 FINDING OUT WHAT ACCOUNT YOU ARE LOGGED INTO (LOG) . 3-2 3.3 THE STAT AND SYSTAT COMMANDS . 3-3 3.4 FINDING OUT THE STATUS OF YOUR JOB (JOBS AND JOBALC) 3-3 CHAPTER 4 - COMMAND FORMATS, SWITCHES, AND DEFAULTS 4.1 FORMAT . 4-2 4.2 SWITCHES . 4-3 4.3 DEFAULTS . 4-3 4.4 INPUT/OUTPUT REDIRECTION . 4-4 4.4.1 Redirection Symbols . 4-4 4.4.2 Using Redirection . 4-4 AMOS User's Guide, Rev 02 Page iv AMOS User's Guide 4.5 EDITING A COMMAND LINE . 4-6 4.6 RECALLING A COMMAND LINE . 4-6 4.7 GETTING HELP FROM THE EDITOR . 4-7 CHAPTER 5 - CREATING AND USING FILES 5.1 CREATING FILES WITH ALPHAVUE . 5-1 5.1.1 Reserved File Extensions . 5-2 5.1.2 Finding Out What Files are in Your Account (DIR) . 5-2 5.1.3 Creating a Sample File . 5-2 5.1.4 Getting Back to AMOS Command Level . 5-4 5.2 DISPLAYING FILES (VUE, TYPE) . 5-4 5.3 COPYING FILES (COPY) . 5-5 5.4 RENAMING AND USING FILES . 5-6 5.5 PRINTING FILES (PRNT) . 5-6 5.6 ERASING FILES (ERASE) . 5-7 CHAPTER 6 - FILE PROTECTION 6.1 FILE PROTECTION . 6-1 6.2 CHANGING PROTECTION . 6-3 6.3 ADDITIONAL DIRECTORY INFORMATION . 6-3 6.4 MIXED FILE SYSTEMS . 6-4 Part 2 Making the Computer Do the Work CHAPTER 7 - USING WILDCARD SYMBOLS 7.1 WHAT ARE WILDCARD SYMBOLS? . 7-1 7.2 SOME RULES FOR USING WILDCARD SYMBOLS . 7-2 7.3 WILDCARD FILE SPECIFICATIONS . 7-3 7.3.1 Input File Specifications . 7-3 7.3.2 Output File Specifications . 7-3 7.3.3 Ersatz Device Specifications . 7-4 7.4 WILDCARD SWITCHES . 7-5 7.4.1 File and Operation Switches . 7-5 7.5 WILDCARD DEFAULTS . 7-6 7.6 WILDCARD SYMBOLS IN COMMANDS . 7-8 7.6.1 DIR - File Directory Display . 7-8 7.6.2 COPY - Transferring Files . 7-11 7.6.3 ERASE - Deleting Files . 7-13 7.6.4 RENAME - Changing File Names . 7-15 7.6.5 PRNT - Getting a Printed Listing . 7-17 AMOS User's Guide, Rev 02 AMOS User's Guide Page v CHAPTER 8 - COMBINING AND SORTING FILES 8.1 THE APPEND COMMAND . 8-1 8.1.1 How to Combine Files . 8-2 8.1.2 How to Add Files to an Existing File . 8-2 8.2 THE SORT COMMAND . 8-2 8.2.1 How to Use the SORT Command . 8-3 8.2.2 Some SORTing Hints . 8-5 CHAPTER 9 - BACKING UP YOUR FILES 9.1 BACKUP PROCEDURES . 9-2 9.1.1 Backing Up the Files in Your Account . 9-3 9.1.2 The System Operator and the COPY Command . 9-4 9.2 BACKING UP ENTIRE DISKS (DSKCPY) . 9-4 9.3 USING THE BACKUP COMMAND . 9-5 9.3.1 BACKUP Options . 9-6 9.3.2 Restoring Files from Backups . 9-7 9.4 OTHER BACKUP COMMANDS - TRADITIONAL FILES ONLY . 9-8 9.5 FOR FURTHER READING . 9-8 CHAPTER 10 - ACCOUNTS AND PASSWORDS 10.1 PROJECT-PROGRAMMER NUMBERS . 10-1 10.1.1 The Root Account . 10-2 10.1.2 The Mail Account . 10-3 10.2 PASSWORDS . 10-3 10.3 LOGGING INTO ANOTHER ACCOUNT . 10-4 10.4 THE START COMMAND FILE . 10-5 10.5 SENDING MESSAGES TO OTHER USERS (SEND) . 10-5 CHAPTER 11 - COMMAND FILES, DO FILES, AND CONTROL FILES 11.1 WHAT IS A COMMAND FILE? . 11-1 11.2 HOW TO CREATE A COMMAND FILE . 11-3 11.3 HOW IS A .DO FILE DIFFERENT FROM A COMMAND FILE? . 11-4 11.4 HOW DO I FIND OUT MORE ABOUT COMMAND AND DO FILES? 11-4 11.5 TASK MANAGER CONTROL FILES . 11-4 11.5.1 How are Control Files Used? . 11-4 11.5.2 Submitting Tasks . 11-5 CHAPTER 12 - USING ALPHA MICRO PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES 12.1 WHAT IS ALPHABASIC? . 12-1 12.1.1 How to use AlphaBASIC . 12-2 12.2 ALPHA MICRO ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE . 12-4 AMOS User's Guide, Rev 02 Page vi AMOS User's Guide CHAPTER 13 - WHERE TO GO FROM HERE 13.1 OTHER USEFUL COMMANDS . 13-1 13.2 OTHER REFERENCES . 13-2 13.3 IF YOU ARE THE SYSTEM OPERATOR . 13-3 APPENDIX A - AMOS ERROR MESSAGES A.1 COMMON ERROR MESSAGES . A-1 A.2 OTHER ERROR MESSAGES . A-6 APPENDIX B - RESERVED FILE EXTENSIONS APPENDIX C - CONTROL CHARACTERS APPENDIX D - OPTIMIZING THE FILE RESTORE PROCESS D.1 IF YOUR WINCHESTER CONTAINS MULTIPLE LOGICAL DEVICES . ..