Gew.
Around The Disks
VECTOR"
USER'S
MANUAL
VECTOR " OPERATING
COMMANDS
If
you
have
been
following
the
Installation
and
Start-Up
Instructions, your
screen should
show
the
A)
prompt now. To "move"
to
another
drive,
just
enter
the
letter
of
the
drive, followed
by
a colon.
(If
you have a floppy-only
system, insert a diskette into the left-hand drive before continuing.)
N
ow
enter the command:
A)1k
[RETURN]
The screen will look like:
A)B:
'jiiiiiiii:
B)
If
you
enter
this
command with
no
diskette in the drive, you will experience
your first "error message":
ERROR - B: DRIVE NOT READY
Just
press [RETURN] and the
A)
prompt will return.
Displaying A FReIs Name
The
resident
command
DIR
is used
to
display a
directory
of
files
on. the
current disk
while you are in the operating system. '
Recall
from
the
discussion of
file
names
that
the
CP/M
wild cards *
and?
can be used
to
stand for a range
of
characters.
A
file
name which
uses
a
wild card is called an
ambiW1Qu§
file
Dame,
or
AFN.
By
contrast, a file which
addresses
one
file only is called an
uDambiljtuQus
file
Dame,
or UFN.
The
UIR
command is one of
many
which accept. optional ambiguous file names
in the
command
line.
So
you
can use this command
to
check
for
a
range
of
files
on
the disk, by entering
the
command:
nm.
<AFN)
[RETURN]
replacing
the wlld cards
representi~
the files you want for the <AFN) in the
example.
EXAMPLE:
'A)nm
*.COM [RETURN]'
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