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Chapter 7
AmigaDOS and the
eLI
You don
'
t
always
have to use the Amiga by clicking the
mouse
on
icons
and
menus.
You can communicate
directly
with AmigaOOS
by
opening a
eLi
window.
eLi
stands for command
line interface. The
eLi
allows you
to directly
issue
commands
to perforrp disk
operations and
file
manipulations
using the
AmigaOOS by typing
commands at
the keyboard, which
appear
in the
eLi
window. The
mo~se
is not used
with
eLi
.
Accessing eLI
To
access
eLi,
the gadget
for
eLi
in
Preferences
must be set to
on
.
Your Workbench disk may
already
have
eLi
set
on,
and
you
need
only
open its
icon
.
Open the System drawer.
If
eLi
is
set to on
,
there will be
an
icon
for
it in
this
drawer; if there is no
eLi
icon
,
you will
have to turn
on
eLi
using
Preferences
.
AmigaOOS
and
the
eLi
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