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- MAGE.COM is an 8080 assembly language program
- which retrieves files accidentally lost while using
- WORDSTAR. The program captures an image of your
- file from computer memory and saves it on a floppy
- disk.
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- MAGE can help with problems such as accidental
- resets, resets caused by static discharge, power
- fluctuations, bad sectors on floppy disks, write-
- protected disks, full disks, BDOS errors on disks
- and various WORDSTAR glitches. The program will
- not recover a file after a complete power outage
- nor under circumstances where you cannot reset the
- computer. It can recover only that portion of a
- file which is in computer memory at the time of the
- accident.
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- The first step in running this program is to
- hit the reset button on the front panel. Contrary
- to the Osborne 01 User's Reference Guide, this does
- not initialize computer memory. The file from
- WORDSTAR will remain intact in memory.
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- Next, insert the floppy containing MAGE.COM
- into one of the disk drives. Boot the system.
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- Running the program is as simple as typing
- "MAGE filenam", where "filenam" is the name you
- want your file to be saved under. If you do not
- specify a name, your file will be saved under the
- default name " . ".
-
- When you execute MAGE your file will begin
- listing to the screen almost immediately. The
- program will stop automatically shortly after the
- last of the recoverable textual material has been
- reached. A small amount of empty memory will also
- be copied at the bottom of your file. Use WORDSTAR
- to remove these "nulls".
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- As an alternative, MAGE constantly checks for
- keyboard input. By depressing any key you may halt
- program execution. Only the portion of memory al-
- ready listed to the screen will be saved to disk.