second edition, fifth print

In English

Publisher: Bantam Books, December, 1987

ISBN: 0-553-34440-0 (Wikipedia Book Sources) (Wikipedian kirjalähteet)

Undestanding and Using DOS

Covers AmigaDOS 1.1 and 1.2! The AmigaDOS Manual, 2nd Edition, is now updated to include DOS Version 1.2. This book is a must for anyone using the Commodore Amiga computer. This is the official "documentation" for Commodore AmigaDOS. The book has three main sections: the User's Manual, which details all the available DOS commands; the Techinal Reference Manual, which expains the Amiga's elaborate filing system; and the Developer's Manual, which gives guidelines for program development in C and assembly programming languages.

Beginners and advanced users alike will appreciate this book's comprehensive coverage of AmigaDOS, a multi-tasking operating system capable of handling several programs simultaneously.

All available DOS commands, including thos for DOS 1.2, are covered in this book. Find out these and more, including:

- AmigaDOS - Explaining this multi-tasking operating system

- DOS Commands - Undestanding all the available commands

- The Screen Editor - Altering and creating text files using ED

- The Line Editor - Processing the source file sequentially using EDIT

- The Filing System - Using C or assembler under AmigaDOS

- Calling AmigaDOS - Utilizing the AmigaDOS resident library

Table of Contents

The AmigaDOS User's Manual	1
Introduction	2
1. Introducing AmigaDOS	4
2. AmigaDOS Commands	40
3. ED - The Screen Editor	96
4. EDIT - The Line Editor	111
Appendix: Error Codes and Messages	153
Glossary	158
The AmigaDOS Developer's Manual	161
1. Programming on the Amiga	163
2. Calling AmigaDOS	176
3. The Macro Assember	192
4. The Linker	213
Appendix: Console Input and Output on the Amiga	224
The AmigaDOS Technical Manual	239
The Filing System	240
Amiga Binary File Structure	249
AmigaDOS Data Structures	268