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MacDOS™ User's Guide
Version 2.0
Copyright © 1993, 1994 by Rainbow Hill Pty Ltd. All rights
reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced, duplicated, or
transmitted, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means,
without express written permission from Rainbow Hill. The rental
or lending of this manual by libraries or other organisations is
expressly prohibited.
MacDOS is a Trade Mark (reg. pend.) of Rainbow Hill Pty Ltd.
Disclaimers and Limited Warranty
MacDOS is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Rainbow
Hill Pty Ltd expressly disclaims all implied warranties, including
but not limited to the warranties of merchantability and fitness
for a particular purpose. Furthermore, Rainbow Hill Pty Ltd does
not guarantee the correctness, accuracy, and reliability of MacDOS
and the accompanying written material. By buying this product, you
have assumed responsibility of all consequences of its usage,
whether due to user error or software defects.
Under no circumstances, Rainbow Hill Pty Ltd, its developers,
directors, and associates will be liable to you for damages to
your data or business caused directly or indirectly by the usage
of MacDOS.
Rainbow Hill Pty Ltd warrants to the original purchaser of MacDOS
that the diskette is free from defects for a period of 90 days
from the date of purchase. Defective diskettes returned within 90
days from the date of purchase will be replaced without charge.
Software Licence
Licence is granted to the original purchaser of MacDOS for
exclusive use by a single person. MacDOS may be installed on more
than one computer provided they are all used exclusively by the
same person.
The restrictions specified in this licence only apply to fully
functional copies of MacDOS. Demo versions of MacDOS and
associated ReadMe files may be copied and freely distributed,
provided they are kept together and not altered or modified in any
way.
Apple, AppleScript, Finder, Macintosh, and TeachText are
trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. MacWrite is a trademark of
Claris Corp. Microsoft, MS-Dos, and MS-Word are trademarks of
Microsoft Corp. MacDOS is a tademark of Rainbow Hill Pty Ltd.
THINK C is a trademark of Symantec Corp.
Contents
1 Welcome to MacDOS
Why MacDOS ?
Introduction to MacDOS for DOS Users
Introduction to MacDOS for Mac Users
What do You Need and What is in the Package ?
How to use this Manual
Conventions
2 The Environment
Command Name
Parameters
Switches
Redirection and Piping
Errors and Warnings
Menus and Window
Control Codes
Tabbing
3 Data on the Mac
Volumes and Drives
Folders
Files
Aliases
4 Working with Volumes
Volume IDs
Displaying Volumes
Changing the Current Volume
Ejecting volumes
5 Working with Folders
Identifying a Folder
Creating Folders
Removing Folders
Renaming Folders
Listing Folders
Changing the Current Folder
Copying Folder Contents
Special Folders
6 Working with Files
Identifying a File
Creating New Files
Removing Files
Listing Files
Copying Files
Renaming Files
Changing File Attributes
Printing Text Files
Direct File I/O
7 Global Variables
Creating and Setting Variables
Displaying and Removing Variables
Retrieving Variables
Operations on Variables
System and Special Variables
8 Batches and Programs
Introduction to Batch Programs
Jumps and Labels
Replaceable Parameters
Conditional Statements
Loops
Error Handling
User Interface
Batches that behave like Applications
9 Customising MacDOS
autoexec.bat
Date
Time
Alerts
Confirmation
Verification of File Copying
Prompt
Literal Volume IDs
Abbreviations
Safe Hacks
10 MacDOS Scripting
11 MacDOS Extensions
12 Getting Info
MacDOS Version
On-line Help
Keeping Track of MacDOS
13 Command Reference
!
ALARM
CALL
CD, CHDIR
CLOSE
CLS
CONFIRM
COPY
DATE
DECR
DEL
DIR
ECHO
EJECT
ERASE: see DEL
EXIT
FOR
GOTO
HELP
IF
INCR
LOG
MD
MEM
MKDIR: see MD
MORE
NEXT
ONERROR
OPEN
PATH
PAUSE
PRINT
PROMPT
RD
READ
REM: see !
REN, RENAME
RENDIR
RESTART
RMDIR: see RD
SERIAL
SET
SHIFT
SHOW
SHUTDOWN
SSTR
SUBSTVOL
TIME
TOUPPER
TREE
TYPE
VER
VERIFY
VOL
WRITE
XCOPY
A Error Codes
Errors
Warnings
Code Breaker
B Extension Programming
Introduction
Functional Specification
Design
Programmer's Guide
Abbreviations
C DOS Glossary