intro(8) intro(8)NAME intro - introduces commands executed from the A/UX Startup application DESCRIPTION The A/UX Startup shell (see StartupShell(8)) behaves like the Bourne shell, but it runs under the Macintosh Operating System. This shell honors the use of the files and directories from the A/UX root file system, or other UNIX file system that you specify. For example, to list the contents of the A/UX directory /etc, the usual command syntax for ls is allowed ls options /etc The ability to access the files in an A/UX partition can be handy. For example, you can perform file-system maintenance using fsck. Another advantage is that these commands allow you to exercise control over the boot process by using ed to modify startup files such as /etc/inittab prior to booting A/UX. Otherwise, such a change would require booting A/UX to make the changes, then rebooting (at least partially) in order to see the changes take effect. StartupShell versions of the following A/UX commands are available: cat chgrp chmod chown cp cpio date dd dp ed fsck fsdb kconfig launch ln ls mkdir mkfs mknod mv newfs od pname rm March 1993 1
intro(8) intro(8)stty tar tunefs Most of these commands are documented in Section 1 of A/UX Command Reference. However, some of them are unique to the A/UX Startup shell. The commands that are unique to A/UX Startup provide valuable administration functions. Commands such as launch are described in the remainder of Section 8. 2 March 1993