Appendix 3
Operating system commands
Operating system commands provide a means of communicating your
requirements to the MOS. The commands described below are of a general
nature; summaries of the commands applicable to the various filing systems
are contained in Appendix 5.
Operating system commands may be issued directly from the keyboard (in
which case they are terminated by depression of RETURN or incorporated in
programs (where they should appear as the last statement on a line).
Most commands may be abbreviated to their first few characters terminated by
a . -- where applicable; the minimum abbreviation for each command is given
in brackets after each command name.
Commands marked '' apply to facilities required only by advanced users and
full details can be found in the Reference Manual.
| *CODE | '' Provide a means of executing machine code |
| routines which are already in memory as if they | |
| were part of the MOS. | |
| *CONFIGURE | Provide a direct means of altering the settings held |
| (*CO.) | in the EEPROM (i.e. without using the Control |
| Panel utility described on page B 10). | |
| *CONFIGURE takes one or two parameters, the | |
| first being the name of the setting to be changed; | |
| the second (if necessary) being the value to be | |
| stored in the EEPROM. Note that you can restore | |
| default values by holding down the 'R' key whilst | |
| turning power on to the computer. In the | |
| parameter list below, n and m denote decimal | |
| numbers; x denotes a number in hexadecimal | |
| notation. | |
| BAUD n Change the RS232 transmit/receive | |
| rate setting according to n. | |
| BOOT Reverses the actions of BREAK and | |
| SHIFT+BREAK. | |
| CAPS Set CAPS LOCK option. |
App 3.1