Alpha Microsystems AM-6000 Owner's Manual page 97

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B-2
Control-Q
Control-R
When you press /
CTRL
must press CTRL / to resume the screen display. If you have typed anything
Q
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 /
CTRL
S
commands aren't displayed on the screen and it appears that nothing happened.
Now press / to release the display, and you see first a list of the files in
CTRL Q
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
commands are in 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.
(described above) to freeze the screen display, you
S
, then type DIR
RETURN
CTRL
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, and then PRINT
RETURN
/ shows you what
R
/ to call up
CTRL R
. The