Owner`s manual

Page B-2 Appendix B
much can be stored. The exact number of characters depends upon your
initial system setup.
Control-Q When you press
CTRL
/
S
(described above) to freeze the screen
display, you must press
CTRL
/
Q
to resume the screen display. If you
have typed anything while the Control-S was in effect, a Control-Q tells
AMOS it can now go ahead and act upon that input.
Try this: Press
CTRL
/
S
, then type DIR
RETURN
, and then PRINT
RETURN
. The
commands aren’t displayed on the screen and it appears that nothing
happened. Now press
CTRL
/
Q
to release the display, and you see first
a list of the files in your account printed on the screen, then a display of
the files waiting to print.
Control-R The command buffer is an area of memory where the computer stores
commands that have been entered. Pressing
CTRL
/
R
shows you what
commands are in your command buffer.
If the line editor is installed on your computer, you will be able to use
CTRL
/
R
to call up previous command lines, make changes to them,
and then submit them again. This is a great convenience if you want to
enter a series of similar commands; you can just keep making minor
changes to one command, and reusing it.
Eagle Series Computer Owner’s Manual, Rev. 03