Naming And Referring 1 Files - Atari DOS 2.5: XF551 Owner's Manual

When the prompt SE LECT ITEM OR
! RetlnI ]
FOA MENU ap-
pears, formatting is complete . You can now store files or write
DOS Files on the formatted diskette.
Now repeat the procedure with another diskette.
Naming and Referring to Files
To manage your tiles with DOS, you have to give each tile a dis-
tinctive filename
.
You also have to use a device code to tell your
computer what part at your system - for example, Disk Drive 1
- you want to handle the file at any particular time. Taken to-
gether, the device code and the filename that you specify make
up a filespec (short for " file specification " ). Here is what a typical
filespec looks like:
Dl ' ATAR I1 30 BAS
. '" i-"
Devic
name
e~
e
Devic
numb
(optio
or
nal)
Ired Aequ'
colon
Filena
(up to
chara
me
a
cters)
required
arator if
Period
as sep
exten
der is used
der
nal)
Exlen
(optio
includes
o to 3 characters
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