SAM Coupe Disk Drive Manual 16
You'll be asked to confirm that this really
is a disk you want to format. All data on a
disk which is FORMATted is ERASEd, so you
must make sure that you do not FORMAT a disk
with important information on it.
It's always useful to have FORMATted disks
standing by. But you won't be able to use
these disks to load SAMDOS2 because the
SAMDOS2 file isn't there yet. To add the
SAMDOS2 file, type:
SAVE "SAMDOS2" CODE 229385,10000 (for a 256K machine)
SAVE "SAMDOS2" CODE 491529,10000 (for a 512K machine)
SECTOR BY SECTOR
COPYING - TWO
DRIVES
SHORT DIRECTORIES
The following command will copy a disk in
drive 2 to a disk in drive 1. Before using
this command make sure that the disk in
drive 2 is write-protected. The command is:
FORMAT TO "D2:"
This will
FORMAT
the disk in drive 1 and then
copy the contents of the disk in drive 2 to
the disk in drive 1, sector by sector - in
other words, very accurately but very
slowly! This command can only be used on a
two-drive system.
Suppose you have dozens of files on your
disk and you want to see them all at the
same time. There's a way of displaying a
DIRectory of file-names only. In MODE3 you
will get three names on each line, and in
MODE3 you will get five names on each line,
so that just about everything can be seen on
a single screen. Take a disk with several
files on it and type: DIR
You'll see a DIRectory in this form:
* SAM DRIVE 1 - DIRECTORY *
samdos2 auto demo
screen1 screen2 screen3
screen4 astro king
flash flash! flash2
If you change to MODE3 by typing:
MODE3
:
DIR
you will get a similar directory but with
five names across. (In either case you will
have more files than printed here if you use
your system disk).
You can also use the commands - DIR 1! and
DIR 2! - to print out short directories.
Summary of Contents for SAM drive
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