Commodore 2031 - Chapter 4: BASIC Commands For Data Handling; Chapter 5: Advanced Disk Programming; Chapter 6: Advanced File Management

Chapter 4
BASIC Commands For Data Handling 27
BASIC Commands Associated With Floppy Disk Drives 27
SAVE and DSAVE (Writing a Program to a Diskette) 28
LOAD and DLOAD (Reading a Program from a Diskette 29
VERIFY 30
OPEN 31
DOPEN 32
CLOSE 32
DCLOSE 33
Closing the Command Channel 33
Closing the Data Channel 34
PRINT# 34
INPUT # 36
GET# 37
RECORD# 37
Quickload Feature (BASIC 4.0) 38
Moving A Tape Program to Disk 39
Chapter 5
Advanced Disk Programming 41
Commodore Disk Operating System (DOS) 41
Disk Utility Command Set 42
BLOCK-READ 44
BLOCK-WRITE 44
BLOCK-EXECUTE 45
BUFFER POINTER 45
BLOCK-ALLOCATE 45
MEMORY 46
MEMORY-WRITE 46
MEMORY-READ 47
MEMORY-EXECUTE 47
USER 47
File Types 49
File Formats 49
Chapter 6
Advanced File Handling 55
Special Open and Close Statements for Direct Access 55
Random Access Example 56
To create A File 57
To Add A Record 58
To See A Record 59
To Change A Record 60
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