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- CALLING DISK7 FROM WITHIN DBASE II (CP/M version 2.41)
-
- File "sweep" utilities are so much a part of everyday micro-
- computer use that one wonders how one can get along without them.
- Until I read the article by Jerry Boyce in the FOGHORN magazine
- of the First Osborne Group (January/86 issue, pp. 61-63) I had no
- way of using such a utility while doing database work. Boyce's
- superb work is well described in his article; I "tweaked" it
- slightly for my use and am distributing it with this file. See
- D7-DB.HEX and D7.CMD; also the assembly language source files
- (*.ASM).
-
- For those without access to Boyce's article, I will caution
- you with a few pointers:
- 1) Always log on to the desired disk after CALLing Disk7
- unless you only want to know the "status" of the drive (i.e.,
- bytes available)
- 2) ALWAYS log back to the dBase disk (i.e., the disk with
- the dBase .COM and overlay files) before exiting with "X"
- 3) Files may be renamed with Disk7, but somehow dBase
- "keeps" the old name in memory until you QUIT; a similar quirk
- exists with deleting files
- 4) CALLing Disk7 after SORTing a database will hang the
- system unless you re-load Disk7 with "DO D7". This is why I
- close any alternate files and database files prior to CALLing
- Disk7 from the dot prompt.
-
- Even with the above quirks, I find this program very useful,
- as it avoids having to exit to CP/M to run D.COM or NSWP.COM in
- many cases.
-
- Here's the introductory screen as modified:
-
- DISK 7.6 - MODIFIED TO RUN INSIDE dBII - G. Pareja
- C - Copy file | D - Delete file | F - File size | J - Jump 22 files
- L - Log drive | M - Mass copy | P - Print text | R - Rename file
- S - Stat drive | T - Tag file | U - Untag file | V - View text file
- ?,/ - MENU | X - Exit to dBII | <space> advances cursor -- B backs up
-
- 134k bytes free on drive A:
-
- A: DATE .CMD :
-
- (I disabled the "W - Write to Punch device" function because it
- hanged the system)
-
- I hope this is useful to the DBASErs out there.
-
- Gerry Pareja
- Vancouver Portable Computer Club
- 1218 Garden Drive
- Vancouver, B.C. V5L 4R1
- (604) 255-7906 (H)