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GENERAL SYSTEM OPERAT!ON
2.8 -- Typical Command Usage Examples
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Notation
Meaning
$nnnn
<::>
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{}
Hexadecimal number "nnnn".
Syntactic elements are printed in
lower
case
and are contained in
angle brackets;
e. g.;
<options)-,
<name:>.
Optional
elements
are contained
in square brackets.
If one of
a
series
o~
element$
may
be
selected,
the available
list
of
elements will be separated by the
Ulord
II
or ",
e.
g. ,
«tag
1:>
or
<tag2:>
J.
A required
element that must be
selected from the set of elements
will
be
contained
in
curly
brackets.
The elements
will
be
separated by the word
"01'11.
All
elements that appear outside of angle brackets
«~)
must be entered as is.
Such elements are printed in
capital
letters
(if
words)
or printed as the actual characters (if
special characters).
For example}
the
syntactical
element
C;
(options:»
'T'equires the semicolon
( j )
to be typed whenever
the
<options~
field is used.
2.8. 1 DIR --
Di
'T'ec
to'T'Y d i sp lay
The
DIR
command is used to display
diskette's
dir~ctory.
Either
the
selective parts of it can be displayed.
command line for the
DIR
command
is:
the
contents
Or
a
entire
directory
or
The
format
of
the
DIR
(name>] Ci(options/J
The
file
name
specification
<name> indicates what to
display,
The
<options>
specification
indicates
how
to
display it.
If
DIR
is entered by itself on the command line}
it will display on the system console the rile names
or
all
user-generated
files
on
drive
zero.
If no user-generated
files exist on
drive
zero,
a
message
will
be
displa~ed
indicating
that
no
di'T'ectory .entries
we'T'e
found.
This is
nO'T'mally the case when OIR is used without any options on the
system
diskettes
that
a'T'e shipped with the new system.
To
display
the system and
the
useT'-geneT'ated
files,
the
"S"
option can
be
placed into the options field:
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