Editing AmigaDOS (section)

==Console==
The Amiga console is a standard Amiga [[virtual device]], normally assigned to ''CON:'' and driven by ''console.handler''. It was developed from a primitive interface in AmigaOS 1.1, and became stable with versions 1.2 and 1.3, when it started to be known as AmigaShell and its original handler was replaced by ''newconsole.handler'' (''NEWCON:'').

The console has various features that were considered up to date when it was created in 1985, like command template help, redirection to null ("'''NIL:'''"), and [[ANSI]] color terminal. The new console handler – which was implemented in release 1.2 – allows many more features, such as [[command history]], [[pipeline (Unix)|pipelines]], and automatic creation of files when output is [[redirection (computing)|redirected]]. When [[TCP/IP stack]]s like AmiTCP were released in the early 1990s, the console could also receive redirection from Internet-enabled Amiga device handlers (e.g., ''TCP:'', {{mono|copy file TO TCP:Site/Port}}).

Unlike other systems originally launched in the mid-1980s, AmigaDOS does not implement a proprietary character set; the developers chose to use the ANSI–[[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]] standard [[ISO-8859-1|ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1)]], which includes the [[ASCII]] character set. As in [[Unix]] systems, the Amiga console accepts only linefeed ("[[Line feed|LF]]") as an end-of-line ("[[Newline|EOL]]") character. The Amiga console has support for [[accented characters]] as well as for characters created by combinations of 'dead keys' on the keyboard.