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- MacDOS™ User's Guide
-
- Version 2.0
-
- Copyright © 1993, 1994 by Rainbow Hill Pty Ltd. All rights
- reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced, duplicated, or
- transmitted, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means,
- without express written permission from Rainbow Hill. The rental
- or lending of this manual by libraries or other organisations is
- expressly prohibited.
-
- MacDOS is a Trade Mark (reg. pend.) of Rainbow Hill Pty Ltd.
-
-
- Disclaimers and Limited Warranty
- MacDOS is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Rainbow
- Hill Pty Ltd expressly disclaims all implied warranties, including
- but not limited to the warranties of merchantability and fitness
- for a particular purpose. Furthermore, Rainbow Hill Pty Ltd does
- not guarantee the correctness, accuracy, and reliability of MacDOS
- and the accompanying written material. By buying this product, you
- have assumed responsibility of all consequences of its usage,
- whether due to user error or software defects.
-
- Under no circumstances, Rainbow Hill Pty Ltd, its developers,
- directors, and associates will be liable to you for damages to
- your data or business caused directly or indirectly by the usage
- of MacDOS.
-
- Rainbow Hill Pty Ltd warrants to the original purchaser of MacDOS
- that the diskette is free from defects for a period of 90 days
- from the date of purchase. Defective diskettes returned within 90
- days from the date of purchase will be replaced without charge.
-
-
- Software Licence
- Licence is granted to the original purchaser of MacDOS for
- exclusive use by a single person. MacDOS may be installed on more
- than one computer provided they are all used exclusively by the
- same person.
-
- The restrictions specified in this licence only apply to fully
- functional copies of MacDOS. Demo versions of MacDOS and
- associated ReadMe files may be copied and freely distributed,
- provided they are kept together and not altered or modified in any
- way.
-
- Apple, AppleScript, Finder, Macintosh, and TeachText are
- trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. MacWrite is a trademark of
- Claris Corp. Microsoft, MS-Dos, and MS-Word are trademarks of
- Microsoft Corp. MacDOS is a tademark of Rainbow Hill Pty Ltd.
- THINK C is a trademark of Symantec Corp.
-
-
- Contents
-
- 1 Welcome to MacDOS
- Why MacDOS ?
- Introduction to MacDOS for DOS Users
- Introduction to MacDOS for Mac Users
- What do You Need and What is in the Package ?
- How to use this Manual
- Conventions
-
- 2 The Environment
- Command Name
- Parameters
- Switches
- Redirection and Piping
- Errors and Warnings
- Menus and Window
- Control Codes
- Tabbing
-
- 3 Data on the Mac
- Volumes and Drives
- Folders
- Files
- Aliases
-
- 4 Working with Volumes
- Volume IDs
- Displaying Volumes
- Changing the Current Volume
- Ejecting volumes
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- 5 Working with Folders
- Identifying a Folder
- Creating Folders
- Removing Folders
- Renaming Folders
- Listing Folders
- Changing the Current Folder
- Copying Folder Contents
- Special Folders
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- 6 Working with Files
- Identifying a File
- Creating New Files
- Removing Files
- Listing Files
- Copying Files
- Renaming Files
- Changing File Attributes
- Printing Text Files
- Direct File I/O
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- 7 Global Variables
- Creating and Setting Variables
- Displaying and Removing Variables
- Retrieving Variables
- Operations on Variables
- System and Special Variables
-
- 8 Batches and Programs
- Introduction to Batch Programs
- Jumps and Labels
- Replaceable Parameters
- Conditional Statements
- Loops
- Error Handling
- User Interface
- Batches that behave like Applications
-
- 9 Customising MacDOS
- autoexec.bat
- Date
- Time
- Alerts
- Confirmation
- Verification of File Copying
- Prompt
- Literal Volume IDs
- Abbreviations
- Safe Hacks
-
-
- 10 MacDOS Scripting
-
- 11 MacDOS Extensions
-
- 12 Getting Info
- MacDOS Version
- On-line Help
- Keeping Track of MacDOS
-
- 13 Command Reference
- !
- ALARM
- CALL
- CD, CHDIR
- CLOSE
- CLS
- CONFIRM
- COPY
- DATE
- DECR
- DEL
- DIR
- ECHO
- EJECT
- ERASE: see DEL
- EXIT
- FOR
- GOTO
- HELP
- IF
- INCR
- LOG
- MD
- MEM
- MKDIR: see MD
- MORE
- NEXT
- ONERROR
- OPEN
- PATH
- PAUSE
- PRINT
- PROMPT
- RD
- READ
- REM: see !
- REN, RENAME
- RENDIR
- RESTART
- RMDIR: see RD
- SERIAL
- SET
- SHIFT
- SHOW
- SHUTDOWN
- SSTR
- SUBSTVOL
- TIME
- TOUPPER
- TREE
- TYPE
- VER
- VERIFY
- VOL
- WRITE
- XCOPY
-
- A Error Codes
- Errors
- Warnings
- Code Breaker
-
- B Extension Programming
- Introduction
- Functional Specification
- Design
- Programmer's Guide
- Abbreviations
-
- C DOS Glossary
-