On May 12, 6:50, Pete Joules wrote:
> I found the commmand line interface 'by accident' simply pressing all of
the
> non alpha keys in turn, F12 scrolled the desktop up by one line and a *
> prompt appeared so as a first guess I typed 'help' and found what appears
to
> be quite a comprehensive help system. The only trouble is, I can't find
a
> way back to the desktop without resetting it :(.
Assuming the default settings for the system is the desktop, you can get
back simply by pressing the RETURN key on a line by itself (no spaces,
etc).
You can see the system settings by typing *status. You can set them with
*configure. You can see the environment settings (which mostly also apply
to the desktop) with *show. You can set them with *configure. You can
enter BASIC from the command line with *BASIC. And so on... All of these
commands accept abbreviations, eg *sh. for *show. They're not
case-sensitive, by the way.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 01:22:23 BST