Table of Contents 1 Introduction ......................................................................... 1 The manual ......................................................................................... 1 The audience ................................................................................... 2 Contents ........................................................................................... 2 Other manuals and programs ........................................................... 3 The Applix 1616 ................................................................................. 5 Programmer or user? .......................................................................
7 About the 1616/OS operating system .................................................. 8 A note from Andrew Morton .......................................................... 9 Enhancements, changes ................................................................... 9 Standards ......................................................................................... 9 Upgrades .......................................................................................... 9 Conventions ........................................................................................ 10 Keyboard conventions .....................................................................
10 Extra keys ........................................................................................ 11 Control key ...................................................................................... 11 Alt key ............................................................................................. 11 Esc key ............................................................................................ 11 Number conventions ....................................................................... 11 Typeface conventions ......................................................................
12 File conventions .............................................................................. 12 2 First Steps ............................................................................. 13 Starting the 1616 ................................................................................ 13 Connecting everything .................................................................... 13 Starting the system .......................................................................... 14 The keyboard ...................................................................................... 15 Using the 1616 keyboard .................................................................
15 Keyboard failure .............................................................................. 16 Cursor keys and numeric keypad .................................................... 16 Control and Alt keys ....................................................................... 17 The Alt key ...................................................................................... 17 Function keys .................................................................................. 18 Last line recall and completion ....................................................... 18 The line editor .....................................................................................
19 3 Command Handling ............................................................ 21 General command format ................................................................. 21 Command input syntax ................................................................... 22 Examples of commands .................................................................. 22 Typing in numbers .......................................................................... 23 Numeric commands ......................................................................... 23 Special characters ............................................................................
23 Error messages produced by 1616/OS ............................................... 24 Command execution ........................................................................ 24 User Tutorial Manual i