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- NAME : MCAT.SET
-
- DATE : 03/29/84
-
- TOPIC : CHANGING 'MCAT' FILE NAMES BUFFER LENGTH EXTERNALLY
-
-
- MCAT is a catalog program for use with your MAST.CAT file. It sets
- the buffer length to optimum for your amount of available memory. It
- first checks the length of the 'file names' buffer, which is very easily
- adjusted for various types of disk drives.
-
- Some drives are mini-floppy size and some are large Winchester, so
- a method was devised to allow the user to easily select the space needed
- for his particular system. There are two ways you can do this with MCAT:
-
-
- a) Edit the user-optional area of MCAT and reassemble with
- ASC.COM, LASM.COM or MAC.COM, or:
-
- b) Consult the table below and change two convenient Bytes:
-
- location location file Bytes
- 0103 0104 names allocated
-
- C0 01 32 448
- 80 03 64 896
- 00 07 128 1792
- 80 0A 192 2688
- 00 0E 256 3584
- 00 1C 512 7168
- 00 38 1024 14336
- 00 70 2048 28672
-
-
- Use DDT or SID to call up the MCAT.COM program. Then use the "S"
- command to make the appropriate changes. When finished, use Control-C
- to get back to CP/M, then save with an appropriate name:
-
-
- A>SAVE 28 MCAT.COM (Be sure to check this figure, the
- program might have been made larger.
- Use STAT to see how many records are
- in MCAT.COM before you start, then
- divide by 2 and increment if -1/2.)
-
- If the file names buffer is too small, a warning notice is shown,
- advising the buffer should be made larger. If you pass the program to
- others, include this MCAT.SET file so they can easily adapt it to their
- size disk system.
-
- When finished using MCAT to update your catalog file (MAST.CAT),
- you can use XCAT.COM to make a cross-referenced file -- either to disk
- or to your printer. The disk file is called MAST.LST. It can be ex-
- amined for a particular program or programs with the FIND.COM utility.
-
-
- A>FIND MAST.LST MODEM
-
-
- will find any program in the file containing
- the characters MODEM. You will soon leran this
- makes a quite convenient way to locate programs
- very rapidly. (Very useful for other programs,
- also.)
-
-
- (For more detailed information, read MCAT.DOC)
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- For my own disks, I use the following scheme for getting
- the "volume number" and the "current date":
-
- A>SAVE 0 -.012 (each disk an unique number from 000-999)
- A>SAVE 0 -20NOV83 (the date does not print but is nice to have)
-
- This nicely identifies my disks and works well with MCAT. If
- you give an unique volume number to each disk an additional name is
- superfluous, as it is quite unlikely you would ever get over 999 disks.
- It is far more simple to keep track of where a disk is stored if you
- use numbers rather than names. Each box has 10 disks so it should be
- super-simple to go to the appropriate box for a particular disk after
- viewing the MAST.LST file made by XCAT.COM to get the disk number.
-
-
- Irvin M. Hoff
- Los Altos Hills, CA