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Offline iamaboringpersonTopic starter

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(sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« on: January 27, 2003, 01:44:16 AM »
 :-) not much, only somthing trivial:
did you know that control and @ (control-shift-2) (i think)
displays the current directory?
i think this works by the amigados command parser relising this is not the name of a command and therefore loads the command CD which treats it as not being an argument - hence, just like typing CD with no argument shows the current directory
cool, huh? or boring? or did you all know it already?
does anyone else know of any other tricks to do in the CLI? or AmigaOS in general?
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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2003, 01:53:20 AM »
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or boring

no, that was cool, thanx ;-)

well, ctrl+ \ closes cli (and at least in 3.9 also the wb windows) but I guess most of you already knew it.

Any other tricks?
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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2003, 01:59:07 AM »
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did you know that control and @ (control-shift-2) (i think)
displays the current directory?

argh, it doesn`t work here, I tried all possible combinations (I have a UK keyboard here and @ is in the place of " of the US keyboard) nor in a sell with kingcon or VNC_shell.
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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2003, 03:40:11 AM »
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did you know that control and @ (control-shift-2) (i think)
displays the current directory?

argh, it doesn`t work here, I tried all possible combinations (I have a UK keyboard here and @ is in the place of " of the US keyboard) nor in a sell with kingcon or VNC_shell.

temporarily change your keymap!!  :-)   :-D
its actually ASCII code $00, so see how else you can type that in, there must be a way
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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2003, 04:45:25 AM »
CD = Change Directory

List = List Directory

Ed = Edit a very basic text file, the most common of which is         the startup-sequence.

Install = Somehow makes a disk bootable

Nothing special in this lot is there?  :-(
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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2003, 10:53:28 PM »
What is interesting is the keyboard shortcuts for these common commands. Useful stuff. I've always wanted a shortcut to close windows.

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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2003, 11:28:28 PM »
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tonyw wrote:
What is interesting is the keyboard shortcuts for these common commands. Useful stuff. I've always wanted a shortcut to close windows.

tony


I find that I have to use the shortcut to close console (CLI etc) windows.  Rather strange... I'm sure it worked perfectly in 3.0, but my A1200 with KS3.1+WB3.5 doesn't let me close them with the close gadget, especially the "output window" you get from "execute command...".  It does, however, work with KingCON installed.  I thought it might just be my machine, but KS3.0+WB3.1 on UAE has the same problem.  Really, really, weird and I'm surprised I haven't heard any mention of this bug elsewhere.

Is it just me??! :-?

Chris
(btw that other trick works here, with Ctrl+# as well as @, although you have to press return afterwards so it is just as quick to type "cd"  :lol:)
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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2003, 11:57:12 PM »
One thing that I thing is already known to the many but I write it for the ones that haven`t heard of it.

You can drag the icons with the mouse only in vertical or only in horizontal by holding down the right Amiga key.


A very nice commodity is mouseblanker. I get very irritated when I`m in Windows and I write something and because of the mouse pointer I can`t see what I`m writing. Another thing that can be used along with the ctrl+\ is in the FKey the shortcut for changing the selected window.
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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2003, 02:01:32 AM »
Here's another:

Edit = the best way to destroy a text file and lots of work if you confuse it with Ed.
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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2003, 07:46:27 AM »
If you hold down the right Amiga key and you double click an icon it closes the window that contains it.
That way you can browse your hd wihout doing all the time open-close, open-close or letting windows opened that you don`t use.
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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2003, 01:07:05 PM »
I was on the google newsgroup and I found this ancient message. (before OS3.5)
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Open GUI drawer from the CLI?
What I want is to be able to open the Amiga-OS icon window of the directory I'm currently sitting in rather than having to start from the top of my hard drive and dive down to where I am in my cli window.

Anyone know of anything that does this?


So if someone has AmigaOS >= 3.5 can use my little program that uses that functionality of the WB.
OpenWin
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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2003, 03:11:18 PM »
Here is another cool thing...

start up a VNC shell and type
multiview &

(the amphersand is important)
then it will run multiview as new process and you get straight back to the shell. I know this is the same as run multiview but I think its pretty cool
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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2003, 03:48:05 PM »
well, this one is a very basic one, but for example you cannot doit on a wintel box and it's very frustrating...

if you press SHIFT and one of the four arrows you go at the end of the cli line.

if you press SHIFT plus backspace you delete all the cli line.

I hope they will still be in AOS4 because I find them very useful
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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2003, 04:12:56 PM »
An interesting BUG that's been in the last several versions (at least since 3.0) of Amiga OS is switching screens via the depth gadget while a window is trying to open on one of the screens. If you time it just so, Intuition stops responding to the mouse or the keyboard (except for CTRL-AMIGA-AMIGA of course). I've tried to get the attention of those working on AmigaOS as to this bug several times, but never heard anything back. Not even an "I can't reproduce that" type of message.
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Re: (sort of) hidden feature in AmigaDOS i found!
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2003, 05:58:54 PM »
@ Billsey,
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If you time it just so, Intuition stops responding to the mouse or the keyboard

I believe that has been fixed in OS 3.9 with Boing Bag #2, but I could be mistaken.  It's never happened to me.
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