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The Am igaDOS Manual THIRD EDITION The AmigaDOS Manual THIRD EDITION Commodore-Amiga, Inc. BANTAM BOOKS TORONTO (cid:149) NEWYORK(cid:149) LONDON (cid:149) SYDNEY(cid:149) AUCKLAND THEAmigaDOS MANUAL, 3RDEDITION A BantamBook/July1991 All rights reserved. Copyright©1991byCommodoreCapiial,Ine. Coverdesign©1991byBantamBooks,Ine. InteriordesignbyNancySugihara Composedby WilliamsPrinting Company Thisbookmaynotbereprodueedin wholeorinpart,bymimeographorany othermeans,without permission.Forinformationaddress:BantamBooks. Throughoutthisbook,tradenamesandtrademarksofsome eompaniesandproduetshavebeenused,andnosuchuses areintendedtoeonveyendorsemento[orotheraffiliations with thebook. ISBN0-553-35403-5 Publishedsimultaneouslyin theUnitedStatesandCanada. BantamBocksarepublishedbyBantamBocks,adivisionofBantamDoubledayDellPubliBhingGroup, Ine.Itstrademark,consistingofthewords"BantamBooks"andtheportrayalofarooster,isRegistered inU.S.PatentandTrademarkOfficeandinothereountries.MareaRegistrada,BantamBocks,Inc.,666 FifthAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10103. PRINTEDINTHEUNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA 098 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Pre face This book, TheAmigaDOSManual,hasthree parts: TheUser'sManual TheDeoeloper'sManual TheTechnicalReferenceManual The User's Manual contains information of interest to every Amiga user. There are many more commands that AmigaDOS understands than are accessi- ble from the Workbench. If a user activates AmigaDOS Command Une Interface,thesenew commands becomeaccessible. The Developer'sManual describeshow to use AmigaDOS from within a pro- gram rather than from a command line interface. It also fully documents the Amiga Linker. The TechnicalReferenceManual describesthe data structures that AmigaDOS usesinternally. Itincludes descriptions of how DOS disk data are stored, and the format ofthe "object-files" that AmigaDOS uses.Adeveloper or expertuser would find the information in this technicalsectionvery useful. Togetherthesethree parts comprise the essentialguide to AmigaDOS. v Acknowle dgme nts Thethird editionoftheAmigaOOSManualwaswritten byDanBaker,Randell Iesup,[ohn Orr, [ohn Toebes, and Isabelle Vesey and edited by [ono HardjowirogoandDanBaker.TheoriginalmanualwaswrittenbyTimKing. A specialthanksto BruceBarrett,PatriaBrown,PamelaClare,Alan Coslett, AndyFinkel,PaulFloyd,[essicaKing,Liz Laban,RobPeck,CarolynScheppner, and Keith Stobie.Without their generouscontributions and suggestionsthis manualwould nothavebeenpossible. vii
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