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- 25th June 1992
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- Support Group Application Note
- Number: 011
- Issue: 1
- Author:
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- Copying the ViewSpell Utility Disc from DFS to ADFS
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- Applicable Hardware: BBC B
- BBC B+
- BBC Master 128
- BBC Master Compact
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- Related Application Notes:
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- COPYING THE VIEWSPELL UTILITY DISC TO ADFS
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- Why you will want to do this
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- Viewspell has been written to be filing system independent, and the speed of
- checking is limited in practice to the speed at which the master and user
- dictionaries can be read in. The DFS is not particularly efficient in this
- respect, and ADFS floppies (or a Winchester drive) are much better if you
- require fast block transfers of data, such as is used by Viewspell. Also,
- ADFS allows sensible partitioning of your disc into various work areas, and
- supports higher data density, getting 640K on an ADFS L(arge) format floppy.
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- How to go about it
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- To transfer all the utilities and examples from your supplied Viewspell
- disc, follow the instructions below.
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- Use your ADFS Utilities disc to format a M(edium) or L(arge) format ADFS
- disc, depending on whether you have single or double sided disc drives.
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- Now do the following:
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- *Basic
- *Fadfs
- *Mount 0 - insert your ADFS Utilities disc in drive 0
- LOAD"CopyFiles"
- *Mount 0 - insert your ADFS Viewspell work disc in drive 0
- *CDir Viewspell
- *Dir Viewspell
- *CDir O
- *CDir T
- *CDir W
- RUN
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- The CopyFiles program will now ask various questions that you should answer
- as below, swapping discs where asked to:
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- (users response in [square brackets])
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- Copyfiles Vx.yz
- Source filing system [D] -> DISC
- Enter DFS drive number [0 RETURN]
- Enter source directory [O RETURN]
- Insert DFS disc into drive 0
- Destination filing system [A] -> ADFS
- Enter ADFS drive number [0 RETURN]
- Enter destination directory [$.Viewspell.O RETURN]
- Copying mode [L RETURN]
- Source list spec [* RETURN]
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- CopyFiles will now copy all files from directory O from your DFS Viewspell
- disc to directory $.Viewspell.O on your new ADFS disc. When this is done,
- the prompt 'Source list spec' will reappear. Press ESCAPE to return to the
- main menu, and repeat for both the other directories, T and W (eg DFS
- source directory W -> ADFS destination directory $.Viewspell.W).
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- When you have done all the above transfers correctly, you should have an
- ADFS disc ready for use with Viewspell.