NEW PREFIX AUTO 4,1 A2osX Help Help BL The help command displays system, application and program help files for A2osX. Options include: BL help help - displays this help page help adm - general help on the A2osX Domain Manager help adm enable - help on the adm enable command help ls - help on the ls command help sh - general shell (bin/sh) help help sh for - help on the shell for command help list - displays a directory listing of help topics BL MAN TEXT /MAKE/usr/share/help/help NEW PREFIX AUTO 4,1 A2osX Domain Manager Help BL ADM or the A2osX Domain Manager is a series of scripts you can use to perform a variety of administrative functions on your A2osX system. For help on any of the adm commands use the syntax help adm command For example you can do BL help adm update help adm enable help adm app install BL MAN TEXT /MAKE/usr/share/help/adm NEW PREFIX AUTO 4,1 A2osX ADM Update Help BL The adm update command allows you to update your current A2osX installation to the latest build. This command requires a properly installed, configured and running network infastructure. Update will test that the update.a2osx.net server can be reached. Update will then compare the currently running version with the latest version available on the update server. BL The update process will install new system files, bins and even an updated version of ProDOS FX. It will not change files in user home directories or configuration files stored in ./etc (other then updated the version file itself). BL MAN TEXT /MAKE/usr/share/help/adm.help/update NEW PREFIX AUTO 4,1 A2osX Edit Help BL The edit command allows the user to interactively read and edit standard text files in A2osX. If you do not specify a file name on the command line, you will be prompted to enter one when you save your work (control-S). Consult the help screen below for a list of the special keys that can be used while editing a file. BL A note for the touch typists!: While edit is not a word processor, it still is one of the most complex programs included in A2osX. It does a lot! A side affect of this, and due to the lack of a keyboard buffer in the Apple //e, if you try to speed type while using EDIT some keystrokes may be dropped. This is most noticeable when using the AppleWin emulator set to 1.0 speed. Changing the emulator speed to at least 2.0 will significantly reduce or eliminate the dropped keys. BL MAN TEXT /MAKE/usr/share/help/edit NEW PREFIX AUTO 4,1 A2osX Shell (bin/sh) Special Keys BL While entering commands at the A2osX shell prompt, you can use the following special keys to edit the command line: BL Key Usage ----------- -------------------------------------------------------------- DELETE Deletes character to left of cursor, moves rest of line left Control-C Erases entire command line Control-D Exits Shell and if user Shell logs you out of your session Control-Z Deletes character under the cursor Up Arrow Displays previous command(s) from history. Down Arrow Displays next command(s) from history. Left Arrow Moves cursor to the left to edit current command Right Arrow Moves cursor to the right to edit current command PAGE In addition to the editing keys above, you can use the following special keys while running scripts or executing commands: BL Key Usage ----------- -------------------------------------------------------------- Control-C Interrupts running command or script Open Apple-0 Switches you to the console display Open Apple-1 Switches you to Virtual Terminals 1 through 8 if so configured to OA-8 Open Apple-9 Switches you to the GUI display if configured and started BL MAN TEXT /MAKE/usr/share/help/sh.help/keys NEW PREFIX AUTO 4,1 A2osX Shell CD Command Help BL cd BL The cd command is used to change the current working directory. You must supply the cd command a valid relative or absolute path. Examples of relative paths include subdir1 (a sub-directory in the current directory), ../subdir2 (a sub-directory in the parent of the current directory), and subdir1/subdir3 ( a sub-directory in the sub-directory subdir1 of the current directory). An absolute path always begins with a / and includes the volume name of the disk drive to which change the current working directory such as /MYVOL1/var/logs (the sub-directory logs in the directory var on the disk with a volume label of MYVOL1). PAGE You can use the pwd command to display the current working directory if your prompt ($) does not automatically display it on the command line (the default, set in your PROFILE). The current working directory is used by the shell to look for scripts not located in one of the directories specified by $PATH or as the directory for reading and writing files when no path is provided by a command. For example, if you execute the ls command without arguments, ls assumes to list the files in the current working directory. Similarly, if you specify a file without a path, for example the command echo Hello > outfile, shell will place the file outfile in the current working directory. See the related popd and pushd commands. BL MAN TEXT /MAKE/usr/share/help/sh.help/cd NEW PREFIX AUTO 4,1 A2osX ADM Update Help MAN TEXT /MAKE/usr/share/help/x NEW PREFIX AUTO 4,1 A2osX ADM Update Help MAN TEXT /MAKE/usr/share/help/x NEW PREFIX AUTO 4,1 A2osX ADM Update Help MAN TEXT /MAKE/usr/share/help/x