Alpha Microsystems AM-6060 Owner's Manual page 82

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Control-Q
Control-R
When you press /
CTRL
must press CTRL / Q to resume the screen display. If you have typed anything
while the Control-S was in effect, a Control-Q tells AMOS it can now go ahead
and act upon that input.
Try this: Press / S
CTRL
commands aren't displayed on the screen and it appears that nothing happened.
Now press / Q to release the display, and you see first a list of the files in
CTRL
your account printed on the screen, then a display of the files waiting to print.
The command buffer is an area of memory where the computer stores commands
that have been entered. Pressing
your command buffer.
If the line editor is installed on your computer, you can use
previous command lines, make changes to them, and then submit them again.
This is a great convenience if you want to enter a series of similar commands;
you can just keep making minor changes to one command, and reusing it.
S (described above) to freeze the screen display, you
, then type DIR
RETURN
/ shows you what commands are in
CTRL R
AM-6060 Computer Owner's Manual, Rev. 00
Appendix B
, and then PRINT
RETURN
/ R to call up
CTRL
. The