Well-known secrets of AmigaDOS

In keeping with the Commodore tradition of cost cutting, most consumer models of their Amiga line of computers came with severely watered down documentation. The Amiga 500 was an exception from this rule, but owners of later machines - such as the A1200 - may not have gotten any documentation for the command line part of AmigaOS at all.

And, of course, even if this documentation had shipped with the machines, it wouldn't have revealed features that were hidden to anyone without access to official developer documentation or even left completely undocumented or unfinished.

This is a quick look at a few of these interesting features, some more obscure than others, but all of them decidedly useful. Most of them only apply to versions 2.x and/or 3.x of the OS. With that said, let's dive right in!

Carl Svensson

Exactly what it says on the tin.