Radio Shack TRS-80 Owner's Manual page 38

'RS-80
MODEL
til
DISK
SYSTEM
Two-file
commands
command
filename
delimiter filename
(options)
comment
filename
is
3
standard
irsijos
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:
filename
ext.
password
:d
filename
consists
of
a
letter
followed by up
to
seven
optional
letters
or
numbers.
ext
is
an
optional
name-extension:
ext
is a
sequence
of
up
to three
letters
or
numbers,
starting with
a
letter.
password
is
an
optional
password; password
is
a
sequence
of
up
to
eight letters or
numbers,
starting with
a
letter.
rfis
an
optional disk-drive
specification,
d
is
one
of
the
digits
n
i
o
-*
Note: There can be no blank spaces
inside a
file
specification,
trsdos
terminates
the
file
specification
at
the
first
blank
space.
For example:
F
I
LEA/ TXT, MANAGER:
3 references the
file
named
filea/txt
with
the
password
manager,
on Drive
3.