╔F YOU'RE PRIMARILY INTERESTED IN USING ┴╥├ TO CREATE AND DISSOLVE FILES ON A ├-64 WITH A SINGLE DISK DRIVE, THESE SIMPLIFIED (GREATLY SIMPLIFIED) DOCS SHOULDBE ALL YOU'LL EVER NEED. ╔F YOU LATER DECIDE TO UTILIZE MORE OF THE MANY FEATURES ┴╥├ HAS, GET THE FULL DOCUMENTATION (ITS BIG!).
─ATE: ┴╥├ BOOTS UP WITH A DEFAULT DATE OF 1 ╩AN, 1980. ╔F YOU'RE ONLY GOING TO DISSOLVE AN ┴╥├HIVE, THERE'S NO NEED TO CHANGE THIS. ╚OWEVER, IF YOU ARE GOING TO CREATE AN ┴╥├HIVE, YOU SHOULD TYPE IN THE CURRENT DATE BECAUSE IT WILL BE RECORDED ON THE ┴╥├FILE YOU CREATE. ─O THIS BY TYPING "DATE", A SPACE, DD,MM, YYYY. ╞OR EXAMPLE, TODAY'S DATE IS THE 2ND OF ╩ANUARY, 1988, SO ╔ WOULD ENTER:
"DATE 02,01,1988" AND HIT ╥┼╘╒╥╬.
╙PACES: ┴╥├ USES A SPACE TO SEPARATE FILENAMES. ┴ PROBLEM CAN OCCUR IF THERE IS A SPACE ╫╔╘╚╔╬ A FILENAME. ╞OR EXAMPLE, IF YOU TYPE "TESTFILE 2.0", ┴╥├ WILL SEARCH FOR (AND NOT FIND) "TESTFILE" AND THEN SEARCH FOR "2.0", AS IF THEY WERE TWO SEPARATE FILES. ╞ORTUNATELY, THERE'S A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO THIS; JUST USE A ╙╚╔╞╘┼─ ╙╨┴├┼ BETWEEN THE "TESTFILE" AND THE "2.0", WHICH WILL LOOK LIKE A NORMAL SPACE ON THE SCREEN, BUT WILL BE DISTINGUISHED FROM A REGULAR SPACE SEPARATING TWO FILENAMES.
─ISSOLVING AN ┴╥├HIVE FILE: "ARC/X FILENAME" (EASY!)
┼XTRACTS ALL FILES FROM THE ┴╥├FILE CALLED "FILENAME" ON DRIVE A: (DEVICE 8/ DRIVE 0 LIKE A 1541/1571 WOULD BE).
├REATING ┴╥├HIVE FILES: (A LITTLE TRICKY, BUT NOT REALLY DIFFICULT)
"ARC/C ARCNAME FILENAME FILENAME ETC."
"ARC/C ARCNAME *" (ALL FILES ON DISK)
"ARC/C ARCNAME B*" (ALL FILES STARTING WITH THE LETTER "B".
┼XAMPLE: ╠ETS SAY YOU WANT TO CREATE AN ┴╥├FILE CONSISTING OF FILES THAT ARE NAMED "ABCD", "FILE1", "FILE2", & "DOCS" AND THAT YOU WANT TO CALL THE RESULTING┴╥├FILE "TEST".
┘OU COULD COPY THESE 4 FILES ONTO A BLANK DISK FIRST AND USE THE WILDCARD "*":
"ARC/C TEST *"
╧R, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO COPY THEM OVER TO A BLANK DISK, YOU CAN TYPE OUT EACH FILENAME, SEPARATED BY SPACES:
"ARC/C TEST ABCD FILE1 FILE2 DOCS"
┼ITHER METHOD CREATES AN ┴╥├HIVE FILE CALLED "TEST.ARC" ON DRIVE A. ╬OTE THAT THE ".ARC" GETS PUT ON AUTOMATICALLY. ┘OU NEVER HAVE TO TYPE THE ".ARC" WHEN ENTERING AN ┴╥├NAME.
─IRECTORY: "DIR" (LISTS FILENAMES IN THE DISK DIRECTORY)
╔T IS VERY HANDY TO LIST THE DIRECTORY IMMEDIATELY BEFORE USING ┴╥├/├ OR ┴╥├/╪ SO THAT ALL THE FILENAMES YOU'LL NEED TO TYPE IN WILL BE LISTED ON THE SCREEN.
─ELETE: "DEL FILENAME" (ERASES A FILE (OR SEVERAL FILES) FROM THE DISK)
╘O SCRATCH A FILE CALLED "TEST", JUST TYPE "DEL TEST". ╔F YOU HAVE FOUR FILES NAMED "TEST1", "TEST2", "TEST3", AND "TEST4" AND YOU WANT TO DELETE ALL FOUR, JUST TYPE "DEL TEST*" AND EVERY FILE THAT BEGINS WITH "TEST" WILL BE DELETED.
╥ENAME: "REN OLDNAME NEWNAME" (TO RENAME FILES)
╘O RENAME A FILE CALLED "TEMP" TO "PERM", JUST TYPE "REN TEMP PERM"
╠IST: "ARC/L ARCFILE" (LISTS OUT THE CONTENTS OF AN ┴╥├'ED FILE)
├OLORS: ┘OU CAN CHANGE THE DEFAULT COLORS FOR THE SCREEN BORDER, BACKGROUND, AND CURSOR BY ╨╧╦╔╬╟ THE STANDARD ├OMMODORE COLOR NUMBERS (N= 0-15) TO ANY COLORCOMBINATION YOU PREFER, AS FOLLOWS:
╠╧┴─"┴╥├250",8
╨╧╦┼ 20815,N (BACKGROUND)
╨╧╦┼ 20820,N (BORDER)
╨╧╦┼ 20825,N (CURSOR)
╙┴╓┼"NEW NAME",8
╔F YOU WANT TO CREATE A ╙─┴ (SELF DISSOLVING ┴╥├) FILE, FIRST CREATE THE ┴╥├FILEAS SHOWN ABOVE, THEN USE ONE OF THE SEPARATE ╙─┴ UTILITIES TO CHANGE THE FILE FROM ".┴╥├" TO ".╙─┴". ╒TILITIES TO CONVERT FROM ".┴╥├" TO ".╙─┴" ARE AVAILABLE ON ╤-╠INK AND ON MANY LOCAL ┬┬╙'S. ═Y FAVORITE IS "┴╥├-╙─┴ ╓4.5", WRITTEN BY ═ARK ╥HODES.
╘HAT'S ALL MOST OF US WILL EVER NEED TO KNOW TO USE ┴╥├. ╔F YOU WANT MORE, THEN YOU'LL NEED THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION. ╞OR THE LATEST ┴╥├ VERSION, CURRENT DOCUMENTATION, AND ┴╥├ OWNERSHIP REGISTRATION ╔ SUGGEST YOU SEND $20 TO THE AUTHOR OF ┴╥├, ├HRIS ╙MEETS AT:
├HRIS ╙MEETS/┴╥├64
┴MPERE ═ETAL
80 ╚ALE ╥OAD ╒NIT 4
┬RAMPTON, ╧NTARIO
├ANANDA, ╠6╫-3═1
416-458-0039 (┬┬╙)
═ANY THANKS TO ├HRIS ╙MEETS FOR A FANTASTIC ┴╥├HIVE PROGRAM!
