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-
- NAME
- ----
- CPCFS - CPCEmu Filesystem Maintenance Version: 0.85
-
-
- SYNOPSIS
- --------
- CPCFS to invoke an interactive session
- CPCFS <commands> ... to perform batch commands
-
-
- DESCRIPTION
- -----------
- CPCFS is a program to copy files form a DOS filesystem to a
- disk-image appropriate for CPCEmu, an emulator for the
- CPC464/664/6128 homecomputer series by Amstrad.
-
- Note: This documentation is generated out of CPCfs' help file CPCFS.HLP.
- Some "See also"-hints can therefore be misleading!
-
-
- INVOCATION
- ----------
- ~invocation~
- Options are simply a shortcut for commands. The first argument can
- be the name of an imagefile, all following arguments are commands.
- If you omit a command and only give <image> ``dir'' is assumed.
-
- ~variables~
-
-
- COMMANDS
- --------
- All commands are case insensitive. Some commands write an informational
- message, if they are invoked without an argument (mode, open, page,
- prompt, verbosity,...). Some commands have more names than one. You can
- use the name that you like most.
-
- ~commands~
-
- ~options~
-
-
- GENERAL commands
- ================
-
- ~open~
- Closes the one in memory, if any. It appends the string ".DSK" to the
- DOS filename, if no extension is given.
-
-
- ~close~
-
- ~user~
-
-
- TRANSFER commands
- =================
-
- ~get~
-
- ~mget~
-
- ~put~
-
- ~mput~
-
- ~mode~
- Printable characters are newlines (10,13) and characters between space (32)
- and tilde (126). <mode> can be abbreviated to its first character B, T, or A.
-
-
- ~sysgen~
- It only works, if the image was formatted with two system tracks (e.g.
- system or vortex format). See STAT, if you want to know the format or
- whether CP/M is already in the image.
-
- To obtain a CP/M-image you can use the accompanying BASIC program
- GETCPM.BAS. It runs on a CPC and copies the system tracks off a real CPC
- disk to the file SYSTEM.CPM. Then transfer the file to DOS.
-
- If you want to "sysgen" your vortex image, you must prepare CP/M first
- (see your vortex documentation). WARNING: I do not own a vortex drive
- nor its documentation, so I cannot tell if it works. Feedback it
- highly appreciated!!!
-
-
- DOS ACCESS commands
- ===================
-
- ~!~
- Executes the program <command> in a DOS-Shell. If only a "!" is
- typed, CPCfs invokes the interactive shell given in the %COMSPEC%
- environment variable or C:\COMMAND.COM if the variable isn't set. You
- must type EXIT to return from the shell to CPCfs. Contrary to other
- commands there is no space needed behind the "!".
-
-
- ~cd~
-
- The "L" in LCD (as well as in LDIR) reminds you, that this command
- affects the local filesystem of DOS.
-
-
- ~ldir~
-
-
- CP/M MAINTENANCE commands
- =========================
-
- Informational
- -------------
-
- ~dir~
-
- ~stat~
-
- ~dpb~
- ~background~
-
- ~comment~
-
- ~type~
-
- ~dump~
-
- Note: Options for DUMP can be packed, but this can be confusing
- E.g. DUMP -B0 -2B5 for blocks 0 to 5
- or DUMP -12 for blocks form beginning (1) to the same blook (2)
-
-
- Changing files
- --------------
-
- ~format~
-
- ~del~
-
- ~ren~
- REN uses the well-known DOS order for renaming (think of the word TO
- between the filenames) and not the (possibly expected) CP/M order (think
- of ":=" between the filenames)
-
-
- ~attrib~
-
- ~copy~
-
-
-
- USER INTERFACE comamnds
- =======================
-
- # <any-text>
- This is a comment. Everything upto the next command is ignored.
-
-
- ~quit~
- Quits CPCFS. You can hit Ctrl-Z to achieve the same purpose, only faster!
-
-
- ~help~
- The startup helppage is:
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- ~nothing~
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ~source~
-
- ~echo~
-
- ~prompt~
-
- ~cls~
-
- ~force~
-
- ~verbosity~
-
- ~page~
- CPCfs has an internal pager for commands like DUMP, TYPE, and so on.
- With the PAGE command you can set the number of lines of your screen
- (the default is 25). If you set PAGE 0, you bypass the internal pager
- and things are displayed without stops.
-
-
-
- FILENAMES
- ---------
- ~filenames~
-
- EDITING
- -------
- ~editing~
-
- VALUES & PERCENT EXPANSION
- --------------------------
- ~values~
- ~percent~
-
-
- FILES
- -----
- CPCFS.CFG
- The commands in this file are executed every time CPCFS starts in
- interactive mode. You can set the PROMPT here or open an often
- used image or ...
-
- CPCFS looks for it at first in the current directory and then in the
- directory where CPCFS.EXE resides.
-
- *.DSK
- This is the default extension for imagfiles
-
- *.CPM
- This is the default extension for CP/M tracks saved by GETCPM.BAS
- and needed by SYSGEN.
-
- SEE ALSO
- --------
- GETCPM.BAS, a Locomotive BASIC program to copy CP/M tracks off a
- diskette and save them to a file. Simply type it in your *original* CPC
- (you can leave out REMarks and PRINTs) and run it on a CP/M system disk.
- It creates a file, that you have to transfer in some way to DOS (read
- the CPCEmu documentation for various ways, how to arrange it). Finally
- use CPCfs' SYSGEN command to create a diskimage with CP/M.
-
- DROPTAG.BAT, a batch file replacing DROPTAG.EXE of the former distribution.
-
- RELATED WORKS
- -------------
- CPCEmu
- (C) Marco Vieth (ali@uni-paderborn.de)
- Current version: 1.3b
- Available on: ftp://oak.oakland.edu/Simtel/msdos/emulator
- or any other Simtel site
-
- CPE
- (C) Bernd Schmidt (crux@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
- Current Version: 5.0
- Available on: ftp://oak.oakland.edu/Simtel/msdos/emulator
- or any other Simtel site
-
- comp.sys.amstrad.8bit
- A usenet newsgroup for discussing CPC related topics
-
- http://arachnid.cm.cf.ac.uk/User/K.E.W.Thacker/Amstrad
- A WWW page with a lot of CPC stuff.
-
- ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/amstrad/amstrad.faq
- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.sys.amstrad.8bit
- The Amstrad FAQ
-
-
- BUGS
- ----
- ~bugs~
-
- LEGAL STUFF
- -----------
- Copyright:
- ~about~
- If you want to see any modification or supplements to CPCFS, contact me
- and I possibly include them in the distribution.
-
- Trademarks:
- "CPC", "Amsdos" is from Amstrad
- "CP/M" is from Digital Research (now Novell)
- "Borland C" is from Borland
- "ACTlib 1.7" is public domain and written by Marc Stern
-
-
- AUTHOR
- ------
- Derik van Zütphen
-
- email: derik@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
- www: http://www-users.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~derik
-
- The latest version of CPCFS and recent patches can be found on
- my WWW page:
-
- http://www-users.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~derik/cpcfs
-
-