The TORCH Graduate User Guide Issue 1.00, Nov 1984 The ...

The TORCH Graduate User Guide Issue 1.00, Nov 1984
When the prompt appears, you can enter the date in the format
MM-DD-YY and then press RETURN. If you enter a date that does not
exist the system will respond with
Invalid date
and prompt you for a valid date. If you are happy with the date
the system currently displays and don't wish to change it then
simply hit RETURN at the prompt.
A quick word here about the importance of the time and date.
Files stored on disc are all time and date stamped automatically by
the system so you can always tell which file is the newest or
oldest or whatever. If you neglect the date and time then you are
simply making things more difficult for yourself. (See also the DATE
and TIME commands, page 16 onwards)
Having got the date out of the way, the system will then
prompt you for the time :
Current time is xx:xx:xx
Enter new time:_
You can now enter the time in the format HH:MM:SS and then
press RETURN. If you enter a bad time, the system will respond with
Invalid time
and prompt you again. If you are happy with the time displayed
and don't want to change it then simply hit RETURN at the prompt.
The system will then respond with its standard prompt :
A>_
The 'A' means that when you enter a command, the system will
look on the first drive (the top one) for a file. This is the
DEFAULT drive. The angle bracket '>' means that MSDOS is ready to
accept a command.
The first thing you should do now is make a copy of the
systems disc.
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At the 'A>' prompt, type
format b:
then press return. The system will respond :
Insert new diskette in drive B:
Press any key when ready