Commands - Acorn computer econet level 2/3 User Manual

Commands

This is a list of the commands mentioned in this guide. It
covers four kinds of command:
■ BASIC commands and keywords (for example, CHAIN)
■ operating system commands (for example, *FX5,4)
■ Econet commands (for example, *PS)
■ file server commands (for example, *ACCESS).
<name> here stands for one of the following:
■ filename
■ file pathname
■ ambiguous file reference
■ directory name
■ directory pathname
■ ambiguous directory reference.
Elements of the syntax shown in square brackets are optional.
* <name>
runs the machine-code program specified
*ACCESS <name><owner access string>/<public access
string>
sets an access string for the file or directory
*BYE
logs the user off
*CAT [<name>]
displays a catalogue of the directory specified; if no name is
specified, a catalogue of the user's main directory is displayed
*CDIR <name>
creates a directory
CHAIN" <name>"
loads and runs the BASIC program specified
*DELETE <name>
deletes the file or directory specified
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