Transient Commands; Peripheral Management - AMSTRAD cpc 6128 User Instruction

Transient commands
To perform more sophisticated file management than permitted by the Direct
Console Mode, you must employ one ofthe various utility programs provided. These
are invoked merely by typing the program name, possibly followed by a filename
and/or some parameters. You have probably already used
D I S C KIT 3.
The commands fall into a number of categories as indicated below. Full
documentation of these programs is extensive, and further information is contained
in the HE
LP
files (on Side 3 of your system discs package) and in SOFT971- A Guide
toCP/MPlus.
The commands
D I S C KIT 3, SET KEY S, SET L S T, SET S I 0, PAL E TT E;
LA N G U AGE and A MS DOS, together with the GSX Screen Device Drivers and the
installation of LOG03 are designed by AMSTRAD, and work exclusively on the
AMSTRAD system. They will not work on any other
CP/M
system.
It
is possible to enter multiple commands on a single line, where the commands are
separated by an exclamation mark. For example:
LANGUAGE 3!SETKEYS KEYS.WP
Peripheral Management
D I S C KIT 3
is a complete disc formatter, copier and checker.
It
is quicker to format
whilst copying than to format and then copy. Comprehensive menus indicate which
keystrokes (mainly from the function key area of the keyboard) should be made.
Vendor format discs are a special form of System disc intended for software
distribution, although Data format discs are perhaps more suitable for this activity
in the CP/M Plus environment.
WARNING
The licence agreement for your
CP/M
(which is electronically serial-number
encoded) permits its use on a single computer system only. In particular this
means that you are prohibited from giving any other person a disc with YOUR
serial-numbered copy of
CP/M
on it. Because copies of Side 1 of your master
package will include your
CP/M
(in the. EMS file) on it, you must be careful not
to sell, exchange, or in any other way part with, any disc with that file on it.
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