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<H1>The GNO Multitasking Environment</H1>
GNO is a UNIX-like software package for the Apple IIgs, which
runs on top of the native operating system, GS/OS.
<p>
This is master documentation site for GNO.
It consists of the following sections:
<ol>
<li><A HREF="#faq">Frequently Asked Questions</A>
<li><A HREF="#refs">Reference Manuals</A>
<li><A HREF="#man">Manual Pages</A>
<li><A HREF="#related">GNO-Related Web Links</A>
<li><A HREF="#old">Old Documentation (August 1996 Revision for GNO v2.0.4)</A>
</ol>
<p>
<b>Remember</b>:
<br>
If someone comes up to you on the street and offers you some
Windows&nbsp;(95,&nbsp;NT) ... <em>Just&nbsp;say&nbsp;GNO!</em>
<p>
<hr>
<A NAME="faq">
<H2>Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers)</H2>
</A>
The
<A HREF="%%FAQ%%">FAQ</A>
for the USENET newsgroup, comp.sys.apple2.gno may be found
<A HREF="%%FAQ%%">here</A>.
It is recommended reading and contains information that is not covered
in the manuals, or that supercedes the manuals. For a summary of the
most recent changes (since the last update), see the FAQ
<A HREF="%%FAQLOG%%">Change Log</A>.
<p>
<hr>
<A NAME="refs">
<H2>Reference Manuals</H2>
</A>
These are based on Procyon's August 1996 v2.0.4 documents, but have
been updated and enhanced.
<p>
<ul>
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<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/intro.html">Overview</A> -->
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/unaval.html">Overview</A>
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/kern.html">Kernel Reference Manual</A>
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/unaval.html">GNO Shell User's Manual</A>
</ul>
<hr>
<A NAME="man">
<H2>Manual Pages</H2>
</A>
This is the set of manual pages for the GNO base distribution. It does
not include manual pages for utilities and libraries that are considered
to be GNO "add-ons".
<em>Note that these are for GNO v2.0.6, are under active development, and
are subject to change.</em>
Some of the documented functions, programs, and files are not available
for GNO v2.0.4.
<p>
Each of the chapters has an introductory page, titled <b>intro</b>.
For a brief introduction to the manual pages in general, see the
<A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/man/man1/intro.1.html">Introduction to Chapter 1</A>.
<p>
<ul>
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/man/man1/00.index.html">Chapter 1</A>
Commands and Applications
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/man/man2/00.index.html">Chapter 2</A> System Calls
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/man/man3/00.index.html">Chapter 3</A>
Library Routines
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/man/man4/00.index.html">Chapter 4</A> Devices
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/man/man5/00.index.html">Chapter 5</A> File Formats
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/man/man6/00.index.html">Chapter 6</A> Games
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/man/man7/00.index.html">Chapter 7</A> Miscellaneous
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/man/man8/00.index.html">Chapter 8</A>
System Administration
</ul>
<p>
<hr>
<A NAME="related">
<H2>GNO-Related Web Links</H2>
</A>
The following links are also likely to be of interest to GNO users
and programmers.
<ul>
<li><A HREF="http://www.hypermall.com/companies/procyon">
Procyon Enterprises Inc</A>
<li><A HREF="http://www.arrowweb.com/sbehrens/obugs.htm">
Soenke Behrens' ORCA/C Bug List</A>
<li><A HREF="http://www.arrowweb.com/sbehrens/describe.htm">
Soenke Behrens' online describe(1) database</A>
<li><A HREF="http://www.servtech.com/public/phoenix/computers/gno/index.html">
Leslie Barstow's GNO Utilities Page.</A>
(This is an sorted version of the <b>describe</b>(1) database.)
<li><A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook298.html">
FreeBSD ftp site list</A>
<li><A HREF="http://www.Geeks.ORG/~taubert/gstcp/index.html">
GS/TCP</A>
<li><A HREF="http://www.zip.com.au/~kashum/marinetti">
Marinetti</A>
<li><A HREF="http://www.members.home.com/sheppy/ToolboxGS">
Eric Shepherd's ToolBox Reference</A>
</ul>
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<A NAME="old">
<h2>Old Documentation</H2></A>
<H3>Reference Manuals (August 1996 Revision)</H3>
These are the reference manuals that shipped with GNO v2.0.4, translated
into html source.
<p>
<ul>
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/docs.Aug96/install.html">
Introduction and Installation</A>
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/docs.Aug96/kernel.html">
GNO Kernel Reference Manual</A>
<li>GNO Shell User's Manual, <A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/docs.Aug96/gsh-12.html">
Chapters 1 and 2</A>
<li>GNO Shell User's Manual, <A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/docs.Aug96/gsh-3.html">
Chapter 3</A>
<li>GNO Shell User's Manual, <A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/docs.Aug96/gsh-4.html">
Chapter 4</A>
<li>GNO Shell User's Manual, <A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/docs.Aug96/gsh-5.html">
Chapter 5 and Appendices</A>
</ul>
<p>
The original MS-Word versions of these documents are also available for
download via ftp:
<ul>
<li>Introduction and Installation:
<A HREF="%%FTP_ROOT%%/doc/refs/aug96/install.zip">
%%FTP_ROOT%%/doc/refs/aug96/install.zip</A>
<li>Kernel Reference Manual:
<A HREF="%%FTP_ROOT%%/doc/refs/aug96/kernel.zip">
%%FTP_ROOT%%/doc/refs/aug96/kernel.zip</A>
<li>GNO Shell Reference Manual:
<A HREF="%%FTP_ROOT%%/doc/refs/aug96/gsh.zip">
%%FTP_ROOT%%/doc/refs/aug96/gsh.zip</A>
</ul>
<H3>Manual Pages (August 1996 Revision)</H3>
There are also selected manual pages available. (Be sure to check the ones
installed on your system as well.) Unfortunately, this set of manual
pages is not divided along chapter boundries.
<p>
<ul>
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/docs.Aug96/man1.html">Part 1</A>
Chapter 1: Commands and Applications
(<b>intro</b>(1) and <b>binprint</b>(1) to <b>sum</b>(1))
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/docs.Aug96/man2.html">Part 2</A>
Chapter 1: Commands and Applications
(<b>sz</b>(1) to <b>tar</b>(1))
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/docs.Aug96/man3.html">Part 3</A>
<ul>
<li>Chapter 1: Commands and Applications
(<b>tee</b>(1) to <b>yes</b>(1))
<li>Chapter 2: System Calls
(<b>alarm</b>(2) to <b>statfs</b>(2))
</ul>
<li><A HREF="%%HTML_ROOT%%/docs.Aug96/man4.html">Part 4</A>
<ul>
<li>Chapter 2: System Calls
(<b>truncate</b>(2) to <b>wait</b>(2))
<li>Chapter 3: Library Routines
<li>Chapter 4: Devices
</ul>
</ul>
<p>
The original MS-Word versions of these manual pages are also available for
download via ftp at
<A HREF="%%FTP_ROOT%%/doc/refs/aug96/manpages.zip">
%%FTP_ROOT%%/doc/refs/aug96/manpages.zip</A>
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Devin Reade
<A HREF="mailto:gdr@eddore.myrias.com">gdr@eddore.myrias.com</A>
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