Osborne Executive Guide Volume 4 Operating Systems 1983
Osborne Executive Guide, Volume 4: Operating Systems is part of Osborne Computer Corporation's Osborne Executive Guides for the Osborne Executive, part number 3F00196-00, copyright 1983, Hayward, California. The scan has 252 PDF pages and a text layer.
Part 1, CP/M Plus, was written by Mike Iannamico and Joseph Caggiano. Part 2, the UCSD p-System, was prepared by Heather Allen with technical assistance from Tom Swegles and Stan Stringfellow.
Contents
[edit | edit source]- Part 1, CP/M Plus: introduction 2; CP/M Plus utilities 5
- Section 1, start-up utilities, 7: HELP 9, DATE 11, setting the clock 11, time display 13, time stamping files 14, INITDIR 14, SET 15, SETDEF 18 and its command summary 20
- Section 2, diskette attributes, 21: naming a diskette, making a diskette read-only 22, passwords 23 (diskette 24, file 25, options 26), access to SYSTEM files 27, SET command summary 28, SHOW and DIR 28, displaying a diskette's name 29 and user numbers 30, detailed directories 31, directory options 32
- Section 3, file handling with PIP, 34
- Part 2, the UCSD p-System
Section 2 explains CP/M Plus diskette and file passwords and read-only attributes, and the SET, SHOW and DIR commands that set and display them. Section 1 explains that file time stamps need INITDIR to have been run on the diskette.
What this guide does not contain
[edit | edit source]- No hardware information: no parts list, values, schematics, voltages, disassembly or fault-finding.
- Nothing on the Osborne 1 or Osborne Vixen.
For the Executive's published specifications see Osborne Executive Reference Guide 1983; for its error messages, Osborne Executive Error Message Listing Feb84.
The series
[edit | edit source]The wiki holds volume 0 (3F00192-00), volume 2 (3F00194-00) and volume 4 (3F00196-00). Volumes 1 and 3 are not hosted.
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