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GENERAL SYSTEM OPERATION
2<9 --
Othe~
Available Commands
becoming
Tamilia~
with the
s~stemj
howeve~1
they
do
helpful
and
necessar~
tools
for
the
advanced
developer.
A
b~ief
description of these
commands
here to shed some light on their utility_
2.9.1 BACKUP -- Diskette copying
provide
sOTt4IJare
is
given
The
BAC~UP
command allows making copies of
enti~e
MDOS
dis k e t t as.
apt i on sex
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oor
ma kin
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camp
1
e t e
cop
i
e s ,
for
file
reorganization
to
consolidate
fragmented
files
and
available diskette space, for
appending
families
of
files
from
one
diskette to another, and for diskette comparisons.
Chapter 3 contains the complete
desc~iption
of
the
BACKUP
command.
2.9.2 EMCOPY -- EDOS rile conversion
The
EMCOPY
command
allows
files from a user's EDOS 2
system diskette to be copied to and
catalogued
on
an
MDOS
diskette.
Options
exist
for
copying the entire disketta,
selected filesl
O~
single files.
Chapter
13
contains
the
complete description of the EMCOPY command.
2.9.3
BLOKEDIT -- File rearrangement
The
BLO~EDIT
command
allows lines of taxt rrom one or
mo~e
ASCII ¥iles to be
s~lectively
copied into
a
new
'ile.
This
command
can be useful in generating
ne~
program source
~iIes
b~
copying routines from existing source riles}
or
in
rearranging
existing
~iles
by
copying their lines into a new
sequence.
Chapter 5 contains the complete description or the
BLOKEDIT command.
2.9.4 LIST -- File display
The
LIST
command
is
used
to print any ASCII rile on
either the system console or the printer.
Options exist
for
numbering
lines,
specifying page formats,
printing headingsl
and indicating starting
and
ending
points.
In
addition,
files
can
be
accessed
by
their logical sector numbers for
rapid access to any
po~tion
of a file.
Chapter
17
contains
the complete description of the LIST command.
2.9.5
MERGE -- File concatenation
The
MERGE
command
allo~s
one
concatenated into a new file.
This
combining
several
smaller
p~ogram
relocatable libraries to be
used
in
or
more
files
to be
command
is
useful
in
modules
or in building
conjunction
with
the
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