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- DISK MASTER
- by
- Robert W. Baker
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- COMMODORE POWER/PLAY MAGAZINE
- August/September, 1986
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- DISK MASTER creates a "master
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- directory disk" that can store disk
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- directories from well over a hundred
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- separate disks. Like most database-
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- type programs, it has functions that
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- allow you to add, delete, and display
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- its records. DISK MASTER also has
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- functions that sort the disk
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- directories according to alphabetical
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- order of disk IDs or by the number of
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- free space the disk has. Still
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- another function finds all copies of a
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- particular file and then lists the
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- disks they can be found on.
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- USING THE DISK MASTER
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- First, you must customize the
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- program for your particular drive
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- configuration. To do so, you must
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- edit lines 220-260 in the program.
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- Refer to the Commodore POWER/PLAY
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- article cited above for more
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- information about customization.
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- The second step is to format a
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- blank disk to serve as the "master",
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- then copy DISK MASTER as the first
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- file on the disk. (If you are using a
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- single disk drive, make sure the
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- program is named exactly as shown.)
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- Once the program is saved on the
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- disk, load and run it. NOTE: always
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- exit the program using menu function--
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- pressing RUN/STOP might corrupt the
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- data files on the disk.
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- FUNCTIONS
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- UPDATE MASTER DIRECTORY-- reads
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- catalogs off of inserted disks and
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- puts them on master disk. Prompts
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- tell you if you are in danger of
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- writing over existing files.
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- DELETE DISK ENTRY-- deletes record
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- from master. You choose directories
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- to be deleted by either filenames or
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- disk IDs. You may use the asterisk in
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- the filename to indicate character
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- matching on the characters entered.
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- DISPLAY SELECTED DIRECTORY-- displays
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- disk directory of a specified disk.
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- LIST DISK ID'S AND NAMES-- lists
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- cataloged disks. List 1 produces a
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- list of all directories on master;
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- Lists 2 and 3 produce alphabetical
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- listings; Lists 4 and 5 list disk
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- directories according to amount of
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- blocks free.
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- FIND SPECIFIED FILE-- finds all
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- instances of particular file and lists
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- the disks that they can be found on.
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- ***
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- DISK FILES USED:
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- DISK MASTER
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