Acorn RiscPC 600 (OT - only 5 years old) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 May 1999

On May 12,  6:50, Pete Joules wrote:

...
  I found the commmand line interface 'by
accident' simply pressing all of the
...
  non alpha keys in turn, F12 scrolled the desktop up by
one line and a *
 prompt appeared so as a first guess I typed 'help' and found what appears
to
...
  be quite a comprehensive help system.  The only
trouble is, I can't find a
...
  way back to the desktop without resetting it :(.

Assuming the default settings for the system is the desktop, you can get
back simply by pressing the RETURN key on a line by itself (no spaces,
etc).

You can see the system settings by typing *status.  You can set them with
*configure.  You can see the environment settings (which mostly also apply
to the desktop) with *show.  You can set them with *configure.  You can
enter BASIC from the command line with *BASIC. And so on...  All of these
commands accept abbreviations, eg *sh. for *show.  They're not
case-sensitive, by the way.

-- 

Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York