MGT SAM drive, User Manual

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SAM Coupe Disk Drive Manual 10
THE DIRECTORY
EXPLANING
THE DIRECTORY
Put your new System Disk back into drive 1.
As well as SAMDOS, there are several other
programs on the disk. If the menu is on the
screen select K. To see a list of the files
on the disk type:
DIR 1
followed by <RETURN>.
From now on whenever you have a command to
type in we will print the command and assume
that you will type <RETURN> afterwards.
DIR displays on screen the DIRectory of the
disk drive which is your current DEVICE. If
you want a DIRectory of drive 2, type: DIR 2
You'll see a screen similar to this:
* SAM DRIVE 1 - DIRECTORY *
1 samdos2 20 C 229385,10000
2 auto 7 BASIC 10
3 demo 30 BASIC 10
4 screen1 49 SCREEN$
5 screen2 49 SCREEN$
6 screen3 49 SCREEN$
7 screen4 49 SCREEN$
8 astro 49 SCREEN$
9 king 49 SCREEN$
10 flash 4 BASIC 9800
11 flash1 13 C 32768,57344
12 flash2 83 C 105312,42000
13 fontld 2 BASIC 10
14 font 1 C 21648,328
15 dumpld 2 C 20224,512
16 UDG Design 19 BASIC 10
Number of Free K-bytes = 472
Your
screen
won't look exactly like this, but
we've included most of the features you'll
come across later, so that we can explain
them here.
Each named item on the disk is a file. Some
files are BASIC programs, others machine
code programs, and others are screen
pictures. on each disk you can have as many
as 80 files, provided there's still space
left on the disk.
Most of the information on the DIRectory
screen is put there by the Coupe. The only
information you'll have to supply when you
create a file, is the file-name, which is
shown in the second column.
File-names can be up to 10 characters long,
in upper or lower case, or a mixture of the
two. File-names can include spaces too.