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- FILES
- by Editor, MCKUG, August 1987
-
- (Tips on copying, printing, combining files for CP/M & DOS)
-
- Direct Keyboard Manipulation of Files and Printer: Possibilities
- here are much greater than just TYPE FILENAME.EXT. I keep
- confusing how to do some of these things so I have gathered them
- together here for reference:
-
- File Creation: To type directly from the command line to a new
- file:
-
- In CP/M: type PIP FILENAME.EST=CRT:<cr> (or CON:<cr>). Then
- type the text, entering CR and Line Feed at the end of each line.
- End with Ctrl-Z, and there is your new file.
-
- In MS-DOS: type COPY CON FILENAME<cr>. Press enter at the end
- of each line, end with Ctrl-Z. These shortcuts are very
- practical for very short files, such as batch files.
-
-
- FILE CONCATENATION: To combine 2 or more files into one file:
-
- In CP/M: PIP NEWNAME=OLDNAME1,OLDNAME2 (and ,OLDNAME3 etc.
- if desired).
-
- In MS-DOS: COPY OLDNAME1+OLDNAME2 NEWNAME
-
-
- WILDCARD CONCATENATION: In MS-DOS only, wild cards are allowed
- in the above formulation. COPY *.LST + *.REF *.LR combines each
- file having a .LST extension with the corresponding .REF file to
- produce the corresponding .LR file - so if you have 3 pairs of
- .LST and .REF files, for instance, you will end up with 3 .LR
- files. COPY *.LST + *.REF *.COMBIN.LR, on the other hand,
- combines each file having a *.LST and all files matching *.REF
- into a single file named COMBIN.LR.
-
-
- TYPEWRITER: To type directly from the command line to the
- printer:
-
- In CP/M: type PIP LST: = CON:<cr>. Then type the test,
- pressing Return and Line Feed at the end of each line. It types
- each letter immediately as you enter it. End with ctrl-Z.
-
- In MS-DOS: type COPY CON PRN<cr> [or LPT1 or COM1 or COM2<cr> ].
- End with Ctrl Z - at which time the text will print.
-
- You'll have to regress to typing without word-wrap or prior-line
- corrections (in CP/M, even without current line corrections) but,
- again, this is good for short jobs.
-
-
- FILE PRINT: To print a file without going through a print
- program:
-
- In CP/M: type PIP LST:=FILENAME.EXT[P]<cr>. Add [z] for files
- with non-ASCII characters such as Wordstar files. Or just type
- TYPE FILENAM Ctrl-P and toggle off Ctrl-P again when the file
- finishes printing. The files need to have carriage returns at
- the end of every line and with the PIP strategy (not with TYPE) ,
- if the word processor uses blank-packing, it gives my printer
- fits. I don't know about yours.
-
- In MS-DOS: type COPY FILENAME PRN or TYPE FILENAME > PRN .
- Again, this won't handle blank-packed files for me (will someone
- please tell me how to get around this?) and it needs carriage
- returns on every line.