Topic       : The ATARI Compendium
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                                Shell Library


The Shell Library contains several miscellaneous functions most often
used by the GEM Desktop and other 'Desktop-like' applications. Other
applications may, however, need specific functions of the Shell Library
for various tasks. The members of the Shell Library are:

   ∙ shel_envrn()   search for environment parameter
   ∙ shel_find()    search subdirectories for filename
   ∙ shel_get()     read from AES internal buffer
   ∙ shel_put()     write to AES internal buffer
   ∙ shel_read()    return command line
   ∙ shel_write()   terminate this application and run another