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Commodore 2040 User Manual
Cbm 5 1/4-inch dual floppy disk drives
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Introduction
Chapter 1
General Information
Description
Front Panel
Back Panel
Interior Configuration
Suggested Reading List
The Diskette
Specifications
Specifications: Model 8050 Dual Drive Floppy Disk
Specifications: Models 2040/3040 Dual Drive Floppy Disk
Specifications: Model 4040 Dual Drive Floppy Disk
Care of the 2040, 3040, 4040 and 8050
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
Inserting the Diskette into the 8050
Inserting the Diskette into the 2040, 3040 and 4040
The 4040 and 8050 Performance Test
The 2040 and 3040 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
New
HEADER (BASIC 4.0 Direct Command)
Initialization (2040 and 3040)
Initialization (4040)
Initialization (8050)
The Directory
Load
DIRECTORY (BASIC 4.0 Direct Command)
Printing the Directory
Validate
COLLECT (BASIC 4.0 Direct Command)
Duplicate
BACKUP (BASIC 4.0 Direct Command)
Copy
Copy (BASIC 4.0 Direct Command)
CONCAT (BASIC 4.0 Direct Command)
Rename
RENAME (BASIC 4.0 Direct Command)
Scratch
SCRATCH (BASIC 4.0 Direct Command)
Chapter 4 BASIC Commands for Data Handling
BASIC Commands Associated with Floppy Disk Drives
SAVE and DSAVE (Writing a Program to a Diskette)
LOAD and DLOAD
Verify
Open
Dopen
Close
Dclose
Closing the Command Channel
Closing the Data Channel
Print
Input
Get
Record
Quickload Feature (BASIC 4.0)
Moving a Tape Program to Disk
Chapter 5
Commodore Disk Operating System (DOS)
Disk Utility Command Set
Block-Read
Block-Write
Block-Execute
Buffer-Pointer
Block-Allocate
Memory
Memory-Write
Memory-Read
Memory-Execute
User
8050 Disk Zones
Chapter 6 Advanced File Handling
Special Open and Close Statements for Direct Access
Random Access Example
To Create a File
To Add a Record
To See a Record
To Change a Record
Getting the Directory of Listings
Ending the Program
Relative Files 4040, 8050
Creating a Relative File
Expanding a Relative File
Accessing a Relative File
Chapter 7 Simplifying the Useof Commodore Disk-Related Commands
Loading the DOS Support Program
Using the DOS Support Symbols: > and
Loading and Running a Program with up Arrow
Special DOS Support Information
Chapter 8 Error Messages- Patternmatching File Names- Diskcommands
Requesting Error Messages: Commodore Disk Drives
Pattern Matching
Summary of CBM Floppy Error Messages
Description of DOS Error Messages
User's Quick Reference: Disk Commands
Chapter 10 Index
Standard Jump Table
Chapter 9 Chapter10
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