Disc System User Guide (1982).

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©© Acorn Computers Ltd 1982 First published 1982 This book is set in 10/12 point Palatino Printed by Yale Press, London SE25 Published by the British Broadcasting Corporation 35 Marylebone High Street London W1M 4AA ISBN 0 563 16572 3
Contents Introduction 5 1 What is a disc system? 6 A disc drive Disc filing system Controlling the filing system Summary 2 Getting going 11 Connecting the disc drive Starting the filing system Running the WELCOME programs Copying the master disc 3 Discs 13 Handling Prevention of accidental erasure Tracks, sectors and bytes What is formatting? 4 Disc files 21 File specification Multi-file operations Auto-start facilities Library files 5 The filing system commands 25 6 The filing system utilities 60 Formatting 7 Random access files 64 8 Using the filing system in assembler 69 General principles Read/write one byte Read/write a group of bytes Read/write a sector
Page 6 and 7: 9 Changing filing systems 75 10 Err
Page 8 and 9: 1 What is a disc system? If you hav
Page 10 and 11: computer the name of the file conta
Page 12 and 13: — The disc filing system controls
Page 14 and 15: more detail later. Now press SPACE
Page 16 and 17: Diagram 2: A 5¼" disc
Page 18 and 19: to copy a complete disc or specifie
Page 20 and 21: Diagram 4 Single disc drive copying
Page 22 and 23: Diagram 5 Tracks, sectors, bytes
Page 24 and 25: The drives are numbered as shown be
Page 26 and 27: Option 0: ignores !BOOT Option 1: *
Page 28 and 29: Notes Particular points to watch fo
Page 30 and 31: Important Locking a file does NOT p
Page 32 and 33: *BUILD Purpose To create a file di
Page 34 and 35: Notes Permitted values of are 0, 1
Page 36 and 37: Diagram 6 *COMPACT Warning This com
Page 38 and 39: *DELETE Purpose To remove a single
Page 40 and 41: *DIR () Set the directory Purpose T
Page 42 and 43: *DUMP Purpose Produces a hexadecim
Page 44 and 45: * EXEC execute Purpose This comman
Page 46 and 47: *INFO Purpose Displays information
Page 48 and 49: On entry X and Y point to a block o
Page 50 and 51: *LOAD Purpose Reads a named file
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*OPT 4 (n) Purpose Changes the auto
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*RUN (parameters to utility) Purpo
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If enough space is available, the i
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Displaying the file using *LIST wil
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*TYPE Purpose Displays a text file
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6 The filing system utilities As ex
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can format a disc in the second dri
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7 Random access files One of the ma
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this case the type is 'string' so t
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The above method will only work con
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A=&80 causes a file to be opened fo
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A=0 Save a section of memory as a n
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On Exit C clear implies a successfu
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10 Error messages &CC Bad filename
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&BD Not enabled An attempt is made
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&07 Number of sectors on disc (8 lo
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12 Filing system command summary Co
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Index Abbreviations 82 *ACCESS 27 A
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