Radio Shack TRS-80 model III Owner's Manual page 29

TRS-80
MODEL
III
DISK
SYSTEM
Two-file
commands
command
filename
delimiter filename
(options)
comment
filename
is
a
stpdard
tbsdds
file specification.
delimiter
is
a blank space
options— See
definition above.
comment—
See
definition
above.
File
Specification
The
only
way
to store information on
a diskette
is
to
put
it
in
a disk
file.
Afterwards,
that information can be
retrieved via the
file
name
you gave
the
file
when
you
created or renamed
it.
A
file
specification has
the general form:
filen^me/extpB$sword:d
filename
consists
of
a
letter^
or numbers.
fextis an
optional name-extensipn;
4
ext' is
a
sequence
of
up
to
three
letters or numbers,
starting
with a
letter.
password^
an
optional password;
'password'
is
a
sequence
of
up
to
eight
letters or
numbers,
starting with a
letter.
:d
is
an
optional disk-drive
specification;
4
d' is
one
of
the
digits
Note: There can be
no
blank spaces
inside a
file
specification,
trsdos
terminates
the
file
specification
at the
first
blank
space.
For example:
FILEA/TXT*MANAGER:3
references
the
file
named
filea/txt
with
the
password
manager,
on Drive
3.
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