This Is A Preliminary Document
AND IT DOES NOT CLAIM TO PERFECTLY DESCRIBE REALITY (or even GEMDOS). PLEASE REPORT BUGS AND TYPOS TO
ATARI. THANKS!
This is the Atari GEMDOS User's Manual. It describes the internals and use of GEMDOS on the Atari ST. This manual is divided into three parts; a tutorial and introduction for beginning users, a reference manual for application writers, and appendices for GEMDOS wizards.
The GEMDOS Tutorial is a gentle introduction to the basics of GEMDOS. Its intention is to get beginning users started as quickly as possible. It gives example programs, designed to exercise most of GEMDOS, which combine into a simple commandline interface, or "shell". The tutorial also covers common pitfalls and useful shortcuts.
The GEMDOS Reference Manual is the application-writer's bible. It covers GEMDOS' calling conventions, file and handle manipulation, process execution, and every GEMDOS call.
The Appendices contain nitty-gritty details and hints for those who have to push GEMDOS to the limit. They are for application writers (and the merely curious) who have "need to know" about obscurities in the system.
To use this manual effectively readers should be familiar with C and 68000 assembly language. Familiarity with MSDOS, Unix[1], and the standard C runtime library will also help.
[1] Unix ist ein eingetragenes Warenzeichen der Bell Laboratories .
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