I set out this morning looking for what seemed like a pretty straight-forward, if slightly dated, piece of information.
I'd forgotten the command to create a new directory in AmigaDOS.
At first, I found a bunch of forum posts discussing globbing under AmgiaDOS. Nothing useful. I found what directory such commands live in, and the limitations to the Amiga's directory naming & structure. Fun. Nothing useful.
I found the original manual on Scribd, presented in some over-the-top reader which had firefox unresponsive, and my laptop fans screaming like jet engines, before I'd managed to scroll past the table of contents. I tried their download link, but they wanted me to sign up for such esoteric functionality.
Feeling the manual was heading in the right direction, however, I tried to find it elsewhere. I quickly ended up at a site which hauled me through a capatcha, asked if I'd like to pay for the link, rather obnoxiously offered a game of poker, asked if I'd like to pay again, and eventually gave me a download link. Hidden behind a 60 second countdown because I wouldn't pay for something which wasn't theirs to sell. And of course, more poker.
I'll say it now. Fuck poker.
I eventually found what I was looking for, in the manual. The manual which I dug out of a crate of rarely-touched junk.
So this is our accumulation of shared knowledge; our wonder of the modern age, our Library of Alexandria. And it's absolutely hideous.
(NB: If Google was nice enough to bring you here looking for something useful, I have two answers. Makedir, and Amiga Manuals)