******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* HOW TO USE THE FLOPPY UTILITY PROGRAM - FLOPPY.BAS ******************************************************************* 15-MAR-76 PROGRAMMER: R.SZEWCZYK ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* ABSTRACT ******** FLOPPY.BAS IS A PROGRAM, SIMILAR IN OPERATION TO PIP, WHICH ALLOWS MULTIPLE FILES TO BE SAVED ON A FLOPPY DISK UNDER RSTS/E. FILES ARE STORED IN A FORMAT COMPATABLE WITH STANDARD FLOPPY STOR- AGE UNDER RT11, ENABLING EASY TRANSFER OF FILES BETWEEN THESE TWO SYSTEMS. OPTIONS INCLUDE: INITIALISATION OF FLOPPY FILE TRANSFERS TO AND FROM FLOPPY LISTING THE DIRECTORY FILE DELETION AND COMPRESSION OF FILES INTO ONE CONTIGUOUS AREA. ****************************************************************** TO RUN FLOPPY ************* NOTE: TO PREVENT OTHER USERS FROM WRITING TO YOUR FLOPPY WHILE YOU ARE USING IT, IT MAY BE WISE TO ASSIGN THE FLOPPY UNITS TO YOUR TERMINAL BEFORE RUNNING. TYPE: RUN$FLOPPY RESPONSE: ENTER COMMAND ? --------------- YOU CAN NOW GO AHEAD AND ENTER ONE OF THE COMMANDS. ***************************************************************** COMMANDS AVAILABLE ****************** (1) TO INITIALISE YOUR FLOPPY ***************************** TYPE: DXN:/Z (WHERE N IS THE FLOPPY UNIT NO.) I.E. =1 FOR UNIT 1 =0 FOR UNIT 0 OR TYPE: DX:/Z ( ASSUMES UNIT ZERO ) RESPONSE: INITIALISE FLOPPY UNIT N, ARE YOU SURE ? ---------------------------------------- TYPE: Y FOR YES OR N (FOR NO) E.G. DX1:/Z - INITIALISE FLOPPY ON UNIT 1 (2) TO COPY A FILE TO FLOPPY DISK ********************************* TYPE: DXN:FILENAME2 472 INDICATING FILE FRED.BAS IS 8 BLOCKS LONG (WHERE EACH BLOCK= 512 CHARACTERS) AND THE REST OF THE FLOPPY IS UNUSED. (480 BLOCKS TO A FLOPPY) (5) TO DELETE A FILE FROM FLOPPY ******************************** TYPE: DXN:FILENAME/D DELETES THE FILE FROM FLOPPY ON UNIT N BY MARKING IT AS UNUSED IN THE DIRECTORY. (6) TO COMPRESS THE FILES ON FLOPPY INTO ONE CONTIGUOUS AREA *********************************** TYPE: DXN:/S THIS ELIMINATES GAPS OF UNUSED SPACE ON FLOPPY UNIT N LEAVING MORE SPACE AFTER THE LAST FILE WHERE IT CAN BE USED. (7) TO TERMINATE THE PROGRAM AND RETURN TO RSTS MONITOR ******************************************************* TYPE: EX ****************************************************************** ******************************************************************