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Chapter 1 General Information J
Front Panel
Back Panel
Interior Configuration
The Diskette
Specifications
Front Panel
Care of the VIC-1540
Care of the Diskettes
Unpacking the Disk Drive
Chapter 2 Preparing to Use Your Disk Drive
Connecting the Disk Drive to the Computer
Performing the Power-On Test
Single Drive Floppy Disk
Inserting the Diskette
Floppy Disk Hookup Jq Position for Diskette Insertion
Disk Drive Performance Test
Chapter 3 Learning How to Use Your Floppy Disk Drive
The Block Availability Map (BAM)
The Disk Operating System (DOS)
Disk Maintenance Commands Jg
New
Initialization
The Directory
Loads
Printing the Directory
VALIDATE T
Copy
Rename
Scratch
Chapter 4 BASIC Commands for Data Handling
BASIC Commands Ascociated with Floppy Disk Drives
SAVE (Writing a Program to a Diskette)
Verify
LOAD (Reading a Program from a Diskette)
Open
Close
Closing the Command Channel
Closing the Data Channel
Print
Input
Get
Moving a Tape Program to Disk
Chapter 5 Advanced Disk Programming
Commodore Disk Operating System (DOS)
Special OPEN and CLOSE Statements for Direct Access
Block-Read
Block-Write
Block-Execute
Buffer-Pointer
Block-Allocate
Block Free
Memory
Memory-Write
Memory-Read
Memory-Execute
User
Structure of Diskette
Standard Jump Table
Directory Format
Sequential Format
Program File Format
1540 Format. Expanded View of a Single Sector
Chapter 6 Sequential File
To Create a Sequential File and Accessing
Example of a Sequential File Program 5Q
Chapter 7 Random File
Data Flow in Random File
Example of Using Record Number
Example of a Random File Program
Allocation of Record Number
Chapter 8 ERROR MESSAGES- PATTERN MATCHING FILE NAMES
Requesting Error Messages
Summary of DOS Error Messages
Description of DOS Error Messages
Pattern Matching
Appendix
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