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Internal Commands
External Commands
Internal commands are an integral part of the RIO-OS program code. Only the bold part of the name is necessary for the detection of the command. The other characters you can enter optional. Internal commands are case insensitive. External programs and utilities are executable files (binaries or procedure files) on the floppy or hard disk and only loaded into memory for execution. Therefore, they must be entered as they are stored as a file. RIO usually uses capital letters.
| Internal Commands | ||
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| Program | Function | |
| A [ LLOCATE ] |
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Allocates Memory Marks a memory area as allocated in the system memory map. |
| B [ RIEF ] |
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Brief Mode Turns off the command line echo |
| C [ LOSE ] | Closes a single logical unit or all logical units | |
| DEA [ LLOCATE ] |
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Frees reserved memory Marks a previous allocated memory area as unallocated in the system memory map. |
| D [ EBUG ] | Enters the ROM resident RIO debugger (Part of the ROM Monitor) |
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| F [ ORCE ] | Force to load a program, even if the required memory space is already allocated | |
| I [ NITIALIZE ] |
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Sends an initilize request to a device |
| R [ ELEASE ] |
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Deallocates any allocated Memory |
| V [ ERBOSE ] |
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Verbose Mode Turns on the command line echo |
| X [ eq ] | Executes the last loaded command | |
| : | Evaluate Expression, 16bit integer arithmetic | |
| External Commands | ||
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| Program | Function | |
| ACTIVATE |
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Activates a pheripheral device It loads its drivers into the memory and registers the device with the RIO-OS. |
| CAT | List the entries in the file system directories (Catalog) |
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| COMPARE | Compares two files Compares at byte level |
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| CONVERT | Convert Files from older (OS 2.1) Zilog disks to RIO Copy and convert all files from an OS 2.1 disk (ZDOS-I file system) to a RIO disk (ZDOS-II file system). |
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| COPY | Copy files | |
| COPY.DISK | Copies a whole disk at block level | |
| COPYSD | Copies a single file using only one (1) disk drive (Copy Single Drive) |
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| DATE |
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Displays or sets the system date |
| DEACTIVATE |
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Deactivates a peripheral device It deregisters the device at RIO-OS and removes its driver from memory. |
| DEFINE | Assigns a logical unit number to an active device. | |
| DELETE | Delete files from disk | |
| DISK.FILE.DEBUG | File- and disk debugger at sector level On MCZ systems with hard disk only |
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| DISK.FORMAT | Format a hard disk On MCZ systems with hard disk only |
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| DISK.REPAIR | Repairs the file system on a hard disk On MCZ systems with hard disk only |
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| DISK.STATUS | Shows the hard disk statistics On MCZ systems with hard disk only |
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| DISPLAY | Shows the system memory allocation table (Memory map) |
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| DO | Batch processing Executes commands from a batch file or command file. Some parameter expansion features avialable. |
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| DUMP | Hexadecimal and ASCII dump of a file | |
| ECHO | Echoes his command arguments to the console output device (e.g. for message output in command files) |
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| ERROR | Prints the description of a numeric error code | |
| ERRORS |
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Show error counters Prints the error counters of the FLOPPY driver |
| EXTRACT | Shows the properties of a file (e.g. record length, record count) |
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| FILE.DEBUG | File- and disk debugger at sector level For floppy disks |
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| FF | Form Feed utility Sends an ASCII form feed to Unit 3 (SYSLST) |
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| FORMAT | Formats a floppy disk | |
| HELP |
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Displays help text for programs |
| IMAGE | Creates a procedure file from memory | |
| LADT | List Active Device Table Shows the active logical devices |
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| LIST | Sends an ASCII file to Unit 3 (SYSLST) | |
| MASTER | Shows or sets the Masterdevice | |
| MEM | Memory diagnostc utility Tests the RAM memory |
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| MOVE | Copy files | |
| PATCH | Patch utility for files Allows the user to append a new segment of code to an existing RIO procedure file, or to modify bytes in any kind of file without program relinking. |
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| PAUSE | Waits until any key is pressed Useful in command files for batch processing |
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| Sends an ASCII file to Unit 3 (SYSLST) | ||
| RENAME | Rename files | |
| RESTORE_TABS | Loads the console tab settings from a file | |
| SAVE_TABS | Saves the console tab settings to a file | |
| SET |
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Sets several system parameters |
| SETFD | Einstellen des Diskettenformats für die Diskettenlaufwerke (Nur P8000-UDOS) |
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| SETLP | Parameter (Zeilen- und Spaltenzahl) für Druckertreiber $LP festlegen (Nur P8000-UDOS) |
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| SET.LP | Sets parameters for the printer driver $LP Margins, condensed or extended typeface, truncate or wrap lines |
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| STATUS | Lists the statistics on drives | |