Program Copying Between Discs, And Cassette; Copying A Whole Disc - AMSTRAD cpc 6128 User Instruction

Program copying between discs, and cassette
In part 7 of this Foundation course, you learned how to format a new blank disc using
the D I S C KIT 3 program on Side 1 of your master
CP/M
system discs package. You
also learned how to copy a program from one disc to another. Now, using the
commands:
Itape Idisc Itape.in Itape.out Idisc.in Idisc.out la Ib
.... you will be able to perform loading and saving to a disc placed either in Drive A or
Drive B (if connected), or to a cassette unit (if connected).
Other external commands:
Idir Idrive lera Iren luser
.... are dealt with later in this manual, in the chapter entitled 'AMSDOS and
CPIM'
(Chapter 5).
Copying a Whole Disc
The entire contents of a disc can be copied from one to another using the D I S C KIT 3
program on Side 1 ofthe
CP/M
system discs package.
You may use this method to make back-up copies of the master system discs
themselves.
Insert Side 1 of the system disc package into the computer's disc drive, and type:
Icpm
After the A> prompt, type:
disckit3
After a few seconds, you will see the DISC KIT opening message at the top of the
screen, followed by:
One drive found
This message tells you that you are running the DISC KIT utility program, and the
computer has detected that you are operating only one disc drive (the one within the
computer).
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